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Word: upright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strictest sense, justifiable. It is vain to try to find excuses for such conduct. But, nevertheless, we believe that the punishment is too harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world and will prevent his becoming a useful man. Finding no man who trusts him, his career is doomed in advance to failure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1897 | See Source »

...great evil-the communistic system, which had been fostering the lazy in idleness. Every colonist was now made a small independent landholder. New and desirable immigrants began to arrive and the colony extended its limits. A very harsh code of laws was put into force. To the upright, Dale was a friend and helper; toward the depraved he was merciless. An alliance with the Indians was cemented by the romantic union of the princess Pocahontas and the young Englishman, John Rolfe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. FISKE'S LECTURE. | 11/25/1896 | See Source »

...Planting of schools, colleges and hospitals (Ely volume, chs. XVII, XVIII.) (3) The Christian religion is taught in its simplest form. (Geo. A. Gordon, sermon, Oct. 15, 1895, p. 9 ff.).- (b) The men and women employed are capable, efficient, and of upright character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH 6. | 2/24/1896 | See Source »

...spring of '94 he rowed upon his class crew; in the following summer he was taken ill with diabetes from which he never recovered. He took a high rank in his studies and was a member of the Engineering. Society. His open-hearted generosity and frankness, and earnest, upright life won him many friends and the esteem of all who know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Hamilton MacGuffey '95 L. S. S. | 1/17/1896 | See Source »

Again Harvard kicked off and after a few minutes of play the ball was carried by Harvard down to the Pennsylvania 10 yard line. Wrightington made two short rushes, and followed them with a little punt. The ball struck the upright post of the goal and fell into Brooke's arms and bounded out. Wrightington got the ball and threw himself across the line for Harvard's second touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania 17; Harvard, 14. | 11/25/1895 | See Source »

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