Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project, namely that intramural would take the place of intercollegiate sports. At a dinner of the Harvard Club in New York, l.e. has declared against such complete supplanting of intercollegiate contests. His argument was that notwithstanding the interest of a majority of undergraduates in sports for the game's sake there are others who gain pleasure in developing themselves through hard and rigorous training to transcendant skill which they desire to match against athletes similarly ambitious...
...editorial intimates that the original purpose of the Society has been abandoned "to conform to popular taste or in a search for novelty for its own sake." From the first it has been the policy of the Society to present new trends in contemporary art, not for their freakishness but as a means of informing Cambridge and Boston of modern movements. The Society does in no way depart from this policy in presenting the forthcoming show of the work of Ben Shahn...
...danger constantly threatening the vitality of the Society is that its original purpose may be forgotten either in an effort to conform to popular tastes or in a search for novelty for its own sake. The Society is the only first-hand contact offered the University layman with pioneer thought and technique in painting and sculpture and should shows be chosen for other reasons than that they are honest and capable examples of the forward line in contemporary art then the Society will lose its reason for being...
...Everything depends upon how you use this liberty," warned Premier Azana. "For the sake of Catalonia and Spain, be careful...
...soon as possible. They are going to cut off our ears and I rather want to keep mine. For God's sake be quick. We have a week to live before we are shot...