Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of an eleventh-hour reassurance by Governor Saltonstall that "the bill would not give me the slightest bit of embarrassment" the forces of opposition failed to overcome a three-vote margin which denied the repealer a third hearing in the lower chamber last week...
Overnight a Japanese expeditionary force which had sailed down the China sea landed on and occupied, in spite of a 32-year-old treaty with France and in the teeth of warnings received last year from France and Britain, this fertile and strategic patch of about 13,500 square miles. Once more the Anti-Comintern bloc was up to its clever trick of kicking the democracies in the pants when they were worried about troubles elsewhere. The Japanese war office hissed assurances that the Hainan occupation was purely a military operation to keep the Chinese from shipping arms to South...
...year and a half since the "incident" at Marco Polo Bridge, Peiping, Japan's armies have marched through half of China's 18 provinces, captured all the major Chinese cities. China has won one major victory, at Taierhchwang. The score looks overwhelmingly one-sided. But in spite of that score, the three latest books on China all predict a Chinese victory...
Harvard held the edge for the rest of the third period with most of the play in Blue territory. In spite of the brilliant play of Austie Harding, who dominated the period with his flashy performance, the Hoddermen were unable to clinch the game...
...spite of the 104-102 adverse vote administered by a strong legislative bloc in favor of the oath's retention, repealists prepared to make a last stand on Monday when the measure comes up for reconsideration in the House...