Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time advertising Beechnut products, by a transcontinental flight to and from Oakland, Calif. Her own autogiro, with Beechnut painted on the sides, was the second "windmill plane" to be seen west of the Mississippi. Whatever could be done to publicize the flight, was done, for Beechnut's sake...
...time when the temper of the nations was vengeful. While a little clear thinking would show the protesting statesmen that cancellation of reparations is the first step, the opinion of these nations must be given weight. The United States can afford to give in quite freely for the sake of maintaining good felling. Such a policy has been shown by the administration on former occasions, that of General Butler in particular...
...used a good many euphemisms during the War for the sake of national morale and this one of 'price-fixing by agreement' is a good deal like calling conscription 'selective service' and referring to registrants for the draft as 'mass volunteers.' Let's make no mistake about it. We fixed prices [during the War] with the aid of potential Federal compulsion and we could not have obtained unanimous compliance otherwise...
...taste of the world is in fact becoming as fickle as women's fashions. . . . People . . . want something cheaper. . . . They have, I believe, got into the habit of liking change for the sake of change. . . . To compete with foreign prices we should sacrifice some of the . . . solidity we have been accustomed to give...
...Vagabond there is nothing worse than the present day tendency to link up things materialistic with endeavors intellectual. He abhors the monetary incentives that spur on novelists and biographers. Likewise he detests the prostitution of literary art by men who write with their tongue in their cheek for the sake of reaping rewards in lucre and not in reputation. His abhorrence of all that is cheap and tainted is great; he is far distant from political graft...