Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College should be ready to make exceptions to its iron rules when they seriously limit the student's opportunity to acquire a welbrounded education. He should not be deprived of the benefit of other equally important courses for the sake of a distribution requirement which falls to take into consideration his previous education...
...Roosevelt must be given credit for his shrewdness," said Comrade Litvinoff modestly. "He saw the futility of further struggle against us for the sake of Capitalism...
...interested in the subject for its own sake, he should study it as he wishes after graduation. But the standard courses taught in colleges are of no value...
...fancy premium. Since New York is the port through which most imported liquor arrives, FACA wrote to Edward P. Mulrooney, head of the state liquor board, urging an immediate investigation of the practice. FACAdministrator Joseph Choate Jr. dropped his studies on the problem of fixing an import quota for sake long enough to declare...
...many places it seems to me to be disgusting but although it contains, as I have mentioned above, many words usually considered dirty, I have not found anything that I consider to be dirt for dirt's sake. If one does not wish to associate with such folk as Joyce describes, that is one's own choice. . . . But when such a real artist as Joyce undoubtedly is, seeks to draw a true picture of the lower middle class in a European city, ought it to be impossible for the American public legally to see that picture...