Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unilateral rearmament." Although the billion dollars' worth of new arms will all be in one nation's hands, it will not be unilateral rearmament, according to Mr. Baldwin, because ''it is [a] strengthening [of] our defensive forces within the framework of the League for the sake of international peace, not for selfish ends." These British forces, although within the framework of the League, may be used by His Majesty's Government alone and at their sole discretion, the Prime Minister indicated later in a radio speech. "Whatever may happen," he said, "the brunt...
...devotion to Italy, and only Italy, is as unmistakable as it is absolute. . . . There must be no personal loyalties, no promises, no doctrinal consistency, nor anything else that conflicts with the destiny of a greater Italy. There are some men who cannot desert the friends of yesterday for the sake of their country. Mussolini is not one of these...
...officers responsible for the enforcement of State and Federal statutes cannot distinguish between editorial oversight and pornographic writing. Anyone who read the current issue of the "Advocate" can scarcely fail to realize that there was no intention in any of the stories to present dirt for dirt's sake, and only had there been such an intention would the present controversy be justified...
...there are courses in practically everything that no one ever discusses outside of class. But supposing that there are twenty sophomores with a burning desire to discuss the latest methods in bee culture, or needle work or Japanese history. Supposing also (this is unlikely but simply for argument's sake) that there is a Philosophy section man who is also interested in bee-propagation. How are the twenty sophomores going to learn that their secret you is also the burning but dark passion of the section man? Unless one recognizes in the other that futile look peculiar to those with...
...group of courses on the problems of collection, in the connection of the arts to the present day, and some attempt to introduce students to the appreciation of art for its own sake (and not for its position in the development of culture alone), would make a start toward spreading interest in the subject, and ensuring that really cultured people were graduating from the college...