Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a U. S. tycoon & wife opened their white-roofed cottage last week. Humbler citizens took hotel rooms. Bermudian landlords, shopkeepers, bartenders rubbed their hands appreciatively. But not many U. S. vacationers who have gone to warmer, quieter Nassau in previous winters changed their custom for Royalty's sake. Between Bermuda and Nassau exists a gentle rivalry shared loyally by those who cause...
...face of these facts the Class Committee perforce could not carry out the mandate of the class favoring the insurance plan. Bad management by their predecessors necessitated action by the Committee which under ordinary conditions would be unjustifiable, but which in this case is sanctioned for the sake of expediency...
...postponed until such date as a mutually satisfactory policy can be agreed upon. But, in the meantime, there appends no compelling reason, from the undergraduate viewpoint, for continuing a wholesale sacrifice of all sports to a dispute that began over one. To maintain a hands-off attitude for the sake of football incompatibility alone would seem a clear overemphasis of that sport. --Daily Princetonian...
Cried Mr. Orthwein: "For God's sake, is he alive...
...sweet lady, do you say you will promise to obey? Love your husband, honor him, for his sake risk life and limb? Never look at other men, pledge yourself to him; and then, faithful for the rest of life, be his gentle loving wife...