Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...scheme was still only a scheme, in spite of the President's determined words. There was bound to be a hot time in Congress when the Seaway came up before it, next session. Public opinion might stop the plan, as it had stopped the Supreme Court reorganization bill. Or, like
...British maintained, morning after morning, that in spite of civilian suffering, damage to industrial targets and shipping facilities was not serious in view of the heaviness of the raids. But people who saw Bristol after its third major dose said that, while ships were still loading and unloading there, wide sections of the town (pop. 415,000) looked worse than the shattered heart of Coventry. It was reliably reported that big Southampton was again out of action as a port of ingress...
...Most significant of all, automobiles have put the gloom casters to shame. In spite of bad weather, Detroit had its best November ever, sold 400,000 cars to retail customers. One catch to this performance: although the 1941 model year began early, the early-season rush is still on. Also, many buyers have been frightened into premature turn-ins by the thought that the 1941 models may be the last for some time. Yet the automakers, just as scared of rationing as their customers, have been anxious to build year-end inventories up to the level...
...dispassionateness can we be saved from the fallacious hopes and needless fears. In religion, at least, only a study of its history can give us the long range view of spiritual and moral processes, which are our best safeguard against disillusionment and despair. We venture to think that, in spite of many valid criticisms of our curriculum, for its archaic and non-contemporary quality our alumni are probably more likely to weather the next few years, and to weather the next few years, and be of greater service to the permanent religious cause, than are those whose professional preparation...