Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...outside the stables. The unpasteurized milk, sold in filthy tins, costs about twice as much as it does in New York, and Bombay's children get less than one-sixth the milk the average U.S. citizen drinks. When the cows are worn out, they are often sold, in spite of Hindu laws, to Moslem slaughterhouses...
...before partition, Calcutta had in two years become packed with about 7,000,000 people. Biggest addition: the Hindu refugees from Eastern Pakistan, who last week were still crowding in. Five thousand Hindus were camped in Calcutta's Sealdah railroad station, ragged, stupefied and sick. In spite of efforts of relief workers there were 70 new cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery every day. A volunteer made the rounds taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath Pal. I lived in the village of Subhodpur. My house has been burned...
...Einstein asks, don't the theoretical physicists really start getting busy and check his new theory against the experience of nature? "Affirmation or refutation will not be easy, in spite of an abundance of known empirical facts. The derivation, from the equations, of conclusions which can be confronted with experience will require painstaking efforts and probably new mathematical methods...
...their acreage and join 1950's support program. But this week he and his neighbors will meet again and he hoped they would reverse themselves and vote to stay out of the program. In any case he does not intend to reduce his acreage of unsupported onions, in spite of his loss...
Teaching, in spite of the publicized shortage of grammar and secondary school instructors, is not so open a field as formerly. Well-qualified Radcliffe graduates, however, can still enter it, and count on permanent employment...