Word: rob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sole Turkish law authority, and anything that is not accounted for in it is not a case for courts. A pistol murder, for example, cannot come up in court because Allah, when he dictated the Koran, forgot to speak of pistols. In addition, a Moslem can kill, assault, rob, and injure a Christian in any manner he pleases because this doesn't constitute a crime in Turkey. With prospects like these any man fortunate enough to be born a Turk is indeed lucky, provided of course that he can find a Christian on whom to practice the pastimes the Koran...
...danger, even courting it, from a profound sense of duty. No one shall persuade us that they did so from a traditional but irrational altruism, and that self-devotion is less worthy of admiration than we feel it to be. If anyone could so persuade, us he would rob life of that which makes, it best worth living. No one shall prevent us from glorying in those young men, or drawing from their example a firmer conviction that all life has to offer is small compared with doing what is right...
...Lowell to the overseers of Harvard University. The report reflects an attitude that is coming to be assumed by many of those interested in the future of intercollegiate competition. It is everywhere recognized that the growing importance of athletics wherever alumni and undergraduates sentiment is concerned has tendered to rob some enthusiasts of their perspective and has given good grounds for charges of commercialism...
...equipment, would lead directly from victory to defeat. Losing teams would mean a slackening of student interest with a corresponding decline in "spirit"; and smaller gate receipts, leading to a decrease in facilities for all-round physical development. Such a proceeding would be entirely destructive; it might indeed rob athletics of much of their present importance but it would not result in any transference of interest from the field of sport to the class room. The obstacles to a general intellectual awakening would still exist...
...Tree" Mr. McLane retells the famous story of Christ's anger from the Fig Tree's point of view, as it were. No interpretation can ever rob the legend of its unfairness and its pettiness, and those who accept it must do so with blinded or winking eyes. Mr. McLane is the first to reject it openly and convincingly, but of course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece...