Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the full moon resplendent no more in her sky. . . . It is pretty bad. We're going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from her last retreat, the Paschal Date. For my part, if they standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last vestigial connection to a real heaven. So the urban business mind decrees. But some...
William Irwin Grubb was appointed Federal Judge 25 years ago by William Howard Taft after that fun-loving President received the following telegram from a group of Birmingham lawyers: NORTH ALABAMA IS STARVING FOR JUSTICE STOP FOR GOD'S SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power...
...leaguers. And there is only one prerequisite to that necessity. We must be able to play them so that our men will not be slaughtered and so that our spectators will continue to pay money for the support of other athletic activities not so profitable, for the sake of the student body, collectively and individually. In order to play them in this capacity, we must have earlier practice, longer practice, better coaching, and less interference and puerile idealism from the H.A.A. Not only is this the only honest policy, but it is the only consistent policy, and the policy that...
...were divided into two groups, one of which played at 2.30 o'clock and the other at 4 o'clock. Although the first group contained most of the top-notch players, Coach Joe Subbs asserted that the division into groups had no significance and was made merely for the sake of convenience...
Already aware of Amundsen's prior success, Britain was stunned by the tragic news. A national memorial service was held. Scott had written, "For God's sake, take care of our people." The Lord Mayor of London started a fund for the dead men's' families. Before long ?90,000 had poured in. It was decided that the surplus should be used not only for a Scott monument but for the advancement of polar research. Professor Frank Debenham, Cambridge University geographer who had traveled with Scott, had an idea that became a vision...