Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distantly hoped-for attainments. The new fields President Conant has opened must be put under a regime of law and order before further harm is done to the inexperienced Freshmen. The Advisers must meet the challenge: Advise or get out! If the present system cannot be reformed, for the sake of time and effort, it might better be scrapped...
...lead pencil than to get $1,000 to teach hobbies to CCC boys. . . . At the present time there is a vast flow of silver-I won't say gold-spreading out all over the country like mud. . . . For God's sake put some of it into stone and steel...
...they over the broad jump in which the winner fell almost 18 in. short of the record, the 1,500-metre walk in which it was so difficult to tell whether the contestants were walking or running that the judges disqualified the first two finishers for safety's sake. They were only slightly more interested when Dimi Zaitz, whose prodigious love for bananas is supposed to account for his strength, out-shotputted Champion Jack Torrance; when bespectacled Chuck Hornbostel won the 1,000-metre...
...other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends for the sake of Larkin premiums...
...insidiously seized the ideas and propositions contained in my plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...