Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, have been young men with future years of possible happiness ahead, youths drunk with the joy of living. The old men, on the other hand, who have lived the greater portion of their lives have sat quietly by and looked on, amused perhaps. For them living for the sake of living has lost its value and only because of loyalties to some ideals do they push on towards a goal and wait patiently for their short span of life...
...than of historical fact. It is conceivable, moreover, that wars might be fought for the preservation of certain ideals over others. A war between eastern and western civilizations might very easily be of this nature. Many men when they enlisted in the last war did so, not for the sake of adventure or because of mere coercion, but because they believed they were fighting for the preservation of certain fundamental concepts they valued. In all struggles between nations an attempt is made to justify the war in the eyes of those serving in the fighting ranks by appealing...
Fundamentally it is a question of which is the more important: abstract ideals or human lives. Do we live for the sake of living or because we in some modest way attempt to justify our existence? It appears that without the driving impulse of certain ideals and aims our lives would be drab and worthless. Individuals will fight to the bitter end for the ideals they cherish and nations will continue to do so by any means they see fit, by war if necessary. If Nazi Germany finds her ideals threatened by unsympathetic neighbors she will not hesitate to defend...
...paints, Ivan who is an electrical engineer. But the grind for a living again gave Bloch the feeling that he was a man without a country. The music he was writing (America, Helvetia) added little to his name. He was desperate when he relinquished valuable manuscripts for the sake of a ten-year endowment from the rich Stern heirs in California (TIME, March...
...course for students who like mathematics for its own sake, and who enjoy spending more than a quarter of their scholastic hours in one year in plotting graphs and differentiating functions. Others, who are not continuing the study, gain an appreciation of the methods of higher mathematics. In preparation for advanced mathematics or for a physical science, it is a necessity...