Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...socialist, communist, or conservative; but for God's sake go out and experiment with your theories and test your convictions. By arguing what is right or wrong you never get anywhere. Theoretical ethics is the bank. There is no right or wrong in international law. I can prove that Japan had a perfect right to do into Manchuria, in spite of the fact that it was entirely wrong from China's point of view...
...went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were impressed by the enormous chorus. They liked the tender love motifs. But by the time Schönberg was on the way to becoming a popular...
Like opera, world's fairs are not expected to be selfsupporting. Rich men make up opera deficits for the sake of social prestige or love of music. Mer chants make up world's fair deficits because world's fairs bring them business. Of first importance therefore is: how many people does a fair draw? A Century of Progress collected 22,320,000 paid admissions in its 170 days of operation by comparison with 21,480,000 for Chicago's famed Columbian Exposition (179 days in 1893). To estimate drawing power of the two fairs: weigh...
Guess you feel like saying "Well, fevven's sake!" when you get this--but we have something in common because I feel the same way about me for writing...
...year, there are only 27 special students, as compared to the 45 who attended last year, it was revealed at University Hall yesterday. Most of these students are taking the courses either as a preparation for Medical School, or simply to add to their own knowledge for pleasure's sake...