Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable only so far as it is genuine." That this practice, however, which is both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion as it is not amenable to the laws of the police courts...
...This shall be done, not by the players giving the tickets to the boy himself, but by dropping them into a box with which the boy will be provided. Players are requested to be very careful in this matter, as otherwise it would be easy to defraud the association. A player can transfer from one court to a better one by paying the necessary increased amount, but in no case shall a player be stopped after any length of play on a court. The grass courts will be opened by the annual spring tournament of the college, from which...
...Secretary of the Treasury has received information that the investigation into the opium smuggling operations recently detected in San Francisco develops a scandalous conspiracy to defraud the government on the part of certain city and federal officers...
Several business men of Boston, who have been Identified with the Huston Ship's Berth Co., have been arrested on charges of perjury with intention to defraud by over-issue of stock and appropriation of capital...
...consider the authors of the supposed wrong. The recent complaints with regard to the hours for closing the Gymnasium are a case in point. An interview with Dr. Sargent clears up the whole matter. The real reason for the present regulation is not, as the complainants hastily assumed, to defraud the students for the sake of certain muscularly inclined instructors, but to further the good of the students themselves...