Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy a more mature and reasonable judgment could be formed by these same persons. Again, persons in many countries read TIME. These, unless they be better posted as to our Naval forces than most of our citizens are, would like wise draw erroneous conclusions. Finally, for the sake of accuracy it should be an established policy with all news - disseminating agencies to strive for accuracy (and nowhere more so than in the field of figures not having to do with money...
...Government. But last week appeared the ordinary annual Japan Today & Tomorrow, published yearly by Osaka Mainichi. First glance showed that it is back to normal. Advertisements withheld last year from the gaze of visitors to the Imperial Enthronement, blazoned forth again. For example, 16 firms touted their sake, and one brand of this potent rice wine slyly boasted its "invigorating qualities...
...Speed's Sake. It takes a very special sort of nerve to fly 300 m.p.h. Because he possesses such nerve, and because it was anxious to fly faster than the rest of the world, the U.S. Navy permitted big, hard-boiled Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., to stay on special duty from 1923, when he won the Pulitzer race and set a U.S. speed record, until last week. After hundreds of hours of experimental flying-inverted, spinning, high speed-for which he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieut. Williams last year obtained the backing of air-minded tycoons...
...recent letter sent to President Stanley of Amherst, the flery class of 1932 presents a clear-cut and convincing case before the faculty that deprived them of all cut privileges. For the sake of the college, the sophomore class chose formal protest. Instead of open revolt and in so doing placed the faculty in a position of defense. Caught in the wheels of a precedent of three years standing, the fear of scorn from other classes forced the sophomores to carry out a performance which many thought "fool-hardy and dangerous." Acting directly counter to a student-faculty agreement...
...case of Juniors and Seniors this situation is particularly unfortunate in consideration of the theses and other additional work required of them in the second half of the year. To add to this already capacity load can do nothing more than force neglect in some field for the sake of checking up on routine assignments. In addition to this considerable grievance, hour examinations at the end of March divide the semester into two parts thus hindering the unification and sequence of the half year's work...