Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have inflation and wallpaper money becomes the currency of the land that $10,000 policy of yours will buy about $4,000 worth of stuff. One disabled veteran said to me the other day: 'Don't let the Legion fail to oppose Inflation. For God's sake let us hold on to what little we're getting...
...Snow Hill, the Presbyterians dined at Salisbury, listened to speeches by Missions Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer and onetime Northern Moderator Lewis Seymour Mudge who said God's word to the church is: "Now march, and lead America that America may become wholly Christian for America's sake, for the world's sake, for Christ's sake...
...language far superior to that which is demanded under most college requirements. It is not feasible to require of every student the ability to speak a foreign language, even haltingly, although a reasonably good pronunciation should be established as part of the approach toward fluent reading and for the sake of understanding the language when spoken; but there is nothing unreasonable in a requirement that imposes on every student the duty of reading with case one language beside his own and of having covered a large part of the great literature in that tongue. Such a requirement would certainly...
Harvard is certainly not in this class. Very few of its employees work under conditions beyond the pale of NRA standards. This has led some people to say that a slight rise in costs would be well worth risking for the sake of making a patriotic gesture. But if Harvard is at one end of the ladder, at the other end are such colleges as Piedmont, whose altruistic faculty serves enlightenment to the Appalachian hill-billies in return for potatoes, pumpkins, and watermelons. It would be a gesture costly to the cause of education if Harvard were to arouse prejudice...
...sake of economy (the Branch's budget was cut from $7,600,000 to $5,200,000) airway radio beacons will not be operated on clear days except on request. For several months airway beacon lights have been turned off between flight schedules, to save money. Henceforth they will burn through the night. Of the Branch's 60 planes for official use, 14 have been put in dead storage. Director Vidal travels not in the handsome Ford tri-motor NSt used by Col. Young, but in a small Stinson which he flies himself...