Word: loftiest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true sportsman," he said, "takes little satisfaction in winning a race against an opponent who has broken his leg, and those who have cherished the loftiest hopes for our future academic development would, I believe, prefer that we wait a generation or two longer rather than that we should align ourselves with the commercial interests that are hovering like carrion vultures above the battlefields of Europe...