Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most impartial reporters on the spot agree that there are 40,000 Italian soldiers on Spanish soil, 20,000 Germans. Thousands of Italian troops unappreciative of the political differences which have set Spanish brothers at one another's throats, have genuinely volunteered for Spanish service for the sake of a bonus dangled before them by Dictator Mussolini, of from 1,000 to 3,000 lire ($53 to $159). Other Italian soldiers have simply been notified that volunteers are wanted. Colonels reportedly say to their battalions: "All men not prepared to volunteer fall out of the ranks." In still other...
...which one, in the Class B mile relay, was set by Elmer & Delmer Brown, with their teammates Johnny Stovall and Alvin Chrisman, a twin whose brother is no runner. Most famed name in the meet was that of James E. ("Ted") Meredith. Sixteen-year-old son and name sake of Pennsylvania's famed pre-War quarter-miler, he helped the Mercersburg Academy team place third in the mile relay...
...baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles, but the effort was not proof against an invitation to a shooting match. His successful duel with a prospector prompted the Vigilantes to a civic purge. Head of a little group of outcast reprobates, marooned in a Sierra blizzard with provisions dwindling, John Oakhurst cut the cards...
Sometimes he admits losing his temper ("We have lost our tempers to the point of neurasthenia. . . ."), sometimes he does it before your eyes: "Do not bother me about leaflets: I am not a machine and cannot work in the present disgraceful situation. . . . For Christ's sake do understand. . . . Unforgivable and shameful . . . simply a disgrace and death to the cause! . . . Yet here you are busy with the devil knows what kind of dirty business! ... If we don't break with the Central Committee and with the Council, then we shall only be worthy of being spat at." When...
...Conant scheme for studying history in one's spare time has breathed fire and fury into history for history's sake. Puttering about the uttermost parts of the University last week-end we stumbled on a scene that made our heart leap up to behold the prophetic power of the President's plan. For in one of the scientific research labs on the other side of the River--the kind of place one never goes to but which makes the University famous--we took part in a tingling drama in American historical development...