Word: plundered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...states sent their ambassadors to ask aid in the direction of public affairs. The temple could not but become immensely wealthy with such a revenue continually pouring into it. The riches excited the cupidity of Xerxes at the time of the Persian invasion, and it was his object to plunder the temple. At this time the nationality and unity which the oracle represented sank with obscurity. It still gave responses, but they were no longer true, and in Athens' wars they favored the enemies of Attica. Two hundred years after Christ, the last word concerning Delphi was heard, and from...
...bill was bad. (a) It was forced forward in an unjustifiable manner. (b) It was advanced from selfish, political and harmful motives. (c) It was an offer of plunder to the States; lobbyists were to get a large share. (d) It was part of a scheme to spend the surplus and prevent reduction of taxation. (e) It was a precursor of similar and worse bills. (f) The money was to go to States and not to people whence it came. (g) It would induce extravagance and waste like that of 1837. (h) It was a log-rolling measure and likely...
...lost, but two more not previously missed! As we supposed the offenders in every case were freshmen; yet it is a thing at which to be gratified that they should have been manly enough to come forward when they found that their escape was serious, and give up their plunder, we trust, unharmed. We congratulate the Anniversary Committee upon being able to settle the matter so quietly and so quickly...
...could be reconciled with the principles which even in those darkened days must have been present with the perpetrators, and where the boundary-line ran between it and the highway assault and robbery. Such, however, was the false reasoning of drink-loving students that they argued: "What I now plunder from you, you may in turn plunder from those who will soon be in your position, and may sanction go with...
Owing to the enterprise of a gentleman the other night, one of the kleptombrellomaniacs about college was caught with his plunder...