Word: lusted
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...preserve reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest. If we fight it will be to maintain our rights as a sovereign nation with honor and dignity; our aim will be to prevent our rights from violation in the future and it will not be merely to punish a present offender, for punishment is a means...
...materialism," of their native land. The younger they are, the more educated they are, the longer they have sojourned abroad, in so much greater measure is their contempt voiced, till it has become almost the mark of culture and broad-mindedness to hold in contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened by his own provincialism...
...country was simply teeming with great plans for the future which would inevitably have been frustrated by war. I am led to send you this declaration by the sudden discovery that some of our noted men still believe that Germany, driven by a militarist party and through lust for conquest deliberately precipitated this struggle. I declare such a view to be absolutely and fundamentally false. ERNEST T. HENDERSON '84, Ph.D., L.H.D...
...seven cornices on the mountain of Purgatory, up which the pilgrim must climb, are the sins of pride, envy, anger, gloomy indifference, avarice, lust, and gluttony. Pride is a sin against God, for it makes man self-centered. Envy is the evil eye that looks with malignant intent upon the more successful man. Gloomy indifference is that dangerous state of mind which leads one finally to embrace sin. Lust is the flame through which every man and woman must sometime pass,--namely, the desires of the flesh...
...view, he constructed his "Inferno" so as to classify the various sins according to their relative baseness and to adjust the penalties with suitability to the sins. Dante's "Inferno" is like an inverted funnel, consisting of concentric circles. The first four circles are occupied by sinners through impulse--lust, gluttony, greed. The fifth circle--the "circle of transition" is occupied by malcontents. The rest of the way to the city of Dis is people by heretics, then by those who have been false both to principle and to communities, and, at the final depth by those who have been...