Word: victimizing
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...below normal. The really strong plea for drinking is that it acts as an aid to conviviality, also that it helps at a crisis, but though it may produce temporary happiness, the following effects will be deeper melancholy and though it may stimulate for the moment, it leaves its victim all the more demoralized afterwards. The real state of happiness which we should strive for is one of perfect health...
During the two centuries and a half of the existence of Harvard College but one graduate has been executed as a malefactor and he was a victim of the witchcraft delusion...
Gray was the victim of the vicious talking this time, but he was equal to the occasion, and Harvard got 5 yards for the play, and the ball was down in the middle of the field. Brewer did not have such good luck, however, and was hurt in the blocking off for his partner. After a minute's rest, however, he came up smiling to his work again...
...another of "The Victim to Ball" is evidently a shrewd observer of student life at Cambridge and his short tale of the fate of a garish suit of clothes has a spontaneity of effort and an agreeable originality which might profitably be imparted to more of the Advocate stories. There are a number of Harvard men we have in our mind's eye who might profit by the moral of the tale...
...Bismarck fell struck by the weapon which he had himself forged-the weapon of all powerful monarchical government. The great statesman had brought up the young emperor to reverence this idea, and when the views of the two men (the giant and the youngster) differed, the former fell a victim to the strength that he had given the latter...