Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion, at all desirable that Harvard should "come in time to play the aristocratic role in American life which Oxford and Cambridge have so long filled in the life of England." Harvard has long been recognized as the intellectual leader of American education. . . why sacrifice that for the sake of being a rich man's club, the patrimony of a would be aristocracy? W. Wingate Snell...
...please make clear that I myself covered all my expenses and I can assure you that no one of the Cuban's doctors received a single penny from the government, and that we were not representing the government. We were there working for the people's sake and by our own personal efforts...
...stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
Alice in Wonderland, superbly sublimates the quality of plain orneriness. He puts more sheer malice in "For God's sake!'' than most actors could express with a snake-whip. The "Centipede's Club" has tried to smuggle a letter out to the Governor. And although Robert Locket has taken the blame, the warden has ordered all to be flogged over the Iron Horse. Groaning, whimpering from their beating, the boys unreasonably accuse Locket of being a stool pigeon. Defending him, Red arranges a light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes...
...designated in Biological treatises, received a warm welcome at the Biology Building although no one was able to account for the long absence of the once familiar insect. Today, the bug is an interesting relic for shortly after its appearance it was sacrificed for the sake of science. It may be viewed in the bedroom of the Freshman where it is being preserved for future generations...