Word: basest
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...basest is, and hope's white garments soil...
...insulted by his opponents; one of them going so far as to declare him "a corrupter of morals and unfit for his place." These are groundless accusations, and their groundlessness was evident even to the accuser. In other words, Dr. Miner and his friends have been guilty of the basest perversion of facts and the most unwarrantable insolence to Dr. Peabody. The students of Harvard College are justly indignant at this cowardly attack upon one so highly esteemed and beloved by them...