Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves are certainly fairly even in affection with ten exceptions, a spread in reuis from $100 to $500 does not accurately measure the relative values received. Men who realize this seek the cheapest room available. Few men of ample means are altruistic enough to take expensive rooms for the sake of making possible low-priced accommodations for their less affluent colleagues. Nor are they moved by the realization that no undergraduate pays fully for the amount of equipment and instruction offered him, and that by taking an expensive room they are merely paying in proportion to their ability...
...Royal Academy Exhibition in London, peering connoisseurs were puzzled but incurious to observe on some of the pictures the mystic initials P.R.B. Gradually the secret leaked (or was given) out: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was arming for Art's sake, preparing to rescue her from her official keepers. They called themselves Pre-Raphaelites because they believed that not since Raphael's day had sincerity and art been candid friends. Most promising painter of the group was facile John Everett Millais; most agonizingly honest, William Holman Hunt; but the most dynamic personality and the acknowledged leader was one Charles...
...kept my mouth shut and let the Bishop talk. The rest did me so much good that I have ever since kept Monday as a day of silence." Dr. Fisher is famed for the way he ends his prayers, looking toward heaven and saying firmly: "For JESUS' sake, Amen...
...nearly ten years Dr. Charles St. John Butler, Navy captain, has been throwing axes into logs for a half-hour each day. Last week in the American Journal of Surgery he told why and how he does so, urged others to do likewise for the sake of their health...
...force the steamship companies to pay this price. The tender captains charge only 6,000 francs ($235) for landing or embarking 200 passengers. Thus far tourists have been so scarce this year that no line calling at Cherbourg has been willing to pay the extra charge for the sake of being able to advertise "The Longest Gangplank In The World" as does the French Line whose ships tie up at Havre. Shipmen argue that the Municipality of Cherbourg built its deep-water port and docks with money collected from travelers as a port tax, should therefore feel morally bound...