Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota last week ex pressed similar views. Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed: I DO NOT FAVOR ANY DELAY FOR THE SAKE OF DELAY BUT I HOPE NEVERTHELESS TO SEE SOMETHING DONE ON THE FARM QUESTION He later added : "I do not understand why all this excitement about a supposed filibuster; I do not propose to join any now. I think it is an exhibition of superlative impudence to be stating that...
Your reply would help settle one of those irksome controversies that for principle's sake men are loth to leave unsettled...
...held regarding the desirability of his exposing this condition. . . . One employe had to take his invalid wife to the hospital every Tuesday at 2 p.m. He had permission to do this, but was warned to come back always and check out daily with the others "for appearances' sake...
...evening at enjoyable debutante dances and then writing for publication the next day that he can't say anything complimentary about the company he met there. He is slightly and continuously satirical about the ladies he meets in this college education business: What does he want, for goodness sake...
These concrete instances may be indicative of the fact that Harvard as a whole has begun to look on football purely as a game. It is, perhaps, an extension to the spectator of the new tendency to accept the English ideal of playing the game for the game's sake: that it is better to lose a cleanly played good match than to win a poorly contested one. Such symptoms of saneness in the Harvard attitude toward football sufficiently dispel the bugaboo of overemphasis. Perhaps super-patriotism has become passe and the ultramodern plays or watches his football with pleasure...