Word: sought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...means of many plans and photographs Professor Dorpfeld sought, with marked success, to give his hearers a picture of the results of the excavations. Nine strata had been found one over the other, marking the site of nine different settlements, each of which in its turn had been destroyed. In the upper stratum Roman buildings were uncovered, including a stately temple of Athena built of marble, and three theatres, and many colonnades and houses. Countless marble inscriptions record that this city was called Ilion, and that some of its buildings were erected by the Roman emperors. Under these Roman buildings...
...boat travels well when the men are at their best. The trouble is that some port man always spoils a good stretch by hitting the water on the recover after 50 or 100 strokes, causing the boat to roll, and spoiling the beat so sought...
...practical outcome of the work of the commission. He first showed that the evils which civil service reform aimed to eradicate were no new thing, but the logical outcome of the world's progress. Thirteen years ago the first law was passed in relation to the reform movement. It sought to remove the higher offices from the control of the party spoilsmen. Since that time the idea has by degrees obtained a firmer footing, until today we have 55,000 positions open to men by competition. The speaker traced the reform in its various phases up to the present time...
Paul showed that the retirement was but a step to something beyond. He sought discipline and intellectual power, but these acquirements were to culminate in moral insight. Thus also it is the mission of the rising generation to fit itself, in college, to preach to the world a new message of peace...
...appeal to every student to let his contempt be known for conduct so insolent and so unworthy of Harvard men. If the act was prompted by a spirit of bravado and a desire for distinction, let the latter be accorded in such terms that it will not soon be sought again...