Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...back to Rome. Nero was afraid of his mother and at first did not dare to return to Rome. Later, however, his second attempt on his mother's life was successful. Nero, now free from restraint, surrounded himself with musicians and singers, and lived in a continuous orgy. His lavish expenditures and desire for pleasure alarmed the people. The conflagration of Rome on July 19, 64; added to their fears and Nero's downfall resulted. Conceiving the idea of building a new Rome, Nero spent vast sums of money with the result that the finances of the state declined...
...believe a legitimate expense, and a necessary one if we are to have first-class teams; but extravagance in training tables in the buying and use of uniforms and other supplies, and duplication and loose ends of various sorts run the expenses of the big teams up to lavish amounts. The best check on expenditures would probably be a graduate manager for all sports, such as Cornell has, with authority over all purchases and payments and accountability for all receipts. At present, the undergraduate managers have a pretty free hand in the spending of money...
...class of 1867; and $25,000 to be used for such purposes as the Corporation may think best; bequests being payable on the death of his wife. In reference to the last gift, he said: "I make this latter gift in memory of my brother, Sherman Hoar, who in lavish fulfillment of those high ideals which he found in his native town and in the teachings of his Alma Mater gave up his life in saving others, regardless of self...
...plains of Galilee, Jesus saw a sower about his work, scattering his seed with lavish hand, careless of those that fell on barren ground, in the confidence of the rich harvest which would spring from those that fell on fertile soil. "There" said Jesus, "is the symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven; with such lavishness God scatters blessings on fruitful and unfruitful soil." And what Jesus meant by the lavishness and prodigality of God was revealed in his own life--a life that never spared its energies, that gave of its richest and fullest powers to the outcast woman...
...poetry consists of two pieces, "The Prison of St. Quentin," by B. Bassett and a translation of a poem of Henri de Regnier by H. B. Stanton '00. Both poems are careful work, though not especially noteworthy. The book reviews are timely, but the writers are almost too lavish in their praise of the work reviewed. The promising note about the whole number is that almost every article is by a new man, and this is a most encouraging sign...