Word: perverting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have told all sorts of imaginary stories of adventure on the plains, and along the rivers of our continent, and it would have been none of our business; he might have lectured himself into fame and fortune without a word of protest from us. But when he began to pervert the history and distort the geography of our continent to gratify his ignorant conceits and base ambitions, it began to come within our range; and when he and his agents attempted to corrupt the school text-book literature of the day, and tried to induce us to falsify our publications...
...useless study; and I verily and soberly believe both these assertions to be true. I believe that the effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their various relations, a grammar which is dependent upon those relations is obviously impossible...
About 1834, some excitement was caused by a charge of sectarianism in the services, which it was alleged might pervert the minds of the students, but it soon died...
...solemnly announced that with the spring season the present fashion of tight-fitting clothes is to disappear, and a sudden change will be made to loose and slippered pantaloons, if we may pervert the quotation...
...pleasant future gazing upon a delusive vacuity of non-realization of its beloved scheme. That co-education does (perhaps very properly) assert its existence at other colleges is not an argument for its adoption at all - at Harvard among the rest. That Harvard is in any way bound to pervert its generous endowment, founded for exclusive purposes, which it is now faithfully fulfilling, and to admit women to all these privileges, while there are already entirely adequate means for the higher education of women provided at other colleges, we do not at all believe. If, however, in the course...