Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great reward, aside from the fun of playing for the game's sake, and that is frequently beaten out of the most ardent devotees of the sport in the first weeks of practice, is the thrill that follows an earned victory. Often this year that thrill was snatched from the team by a run of bad luck, the like which hardened sports writers admitted they had not seen in many years...
...sake of Harvard men, and Harvard's feminine adherents, of all ages it would be an enlightened policy for the College, throughout all the Houses, to allow room permissions up to eight o'clock on Saturday after the Yale encounter...
...unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon trains for safety's sake and driving their cattle before them, the emigrants swarmed in-in such numbers that by 1852 more than 40,000 voortrekkers had made the journey, resettled themselves on the new lands. It is the adventures of such a wagon train that Author Cloete (pronounced "Clooty") describes. Made...
From now on all forms of athletic endeavour, from lowly cross-country to highly-touted football, will become less and less dependent on the haunting specter of insufficient gate receipts; envisioning a not-too-distant future when sports-for-sports-sake wil bring true the dreams of all exponents of simon-pure athletics...
...cannot be called Harvard men after such an exhibition. The air above the stands during the second half was filled with flying paper-wads made of soaked copies of the H. A. A. News. It apparently began as a protest against ladies' umbrellas, but was continued for its own sake. I received a hard blow in the eye from a rolled magazine as I turned my head for an instant . . . I am extremely thankful that I received the blow instead of the girl I was with, and that it did not strike endwise, instead of sideways...