Word: sake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Thomas Sovereign Gates, 75, onetime Morgan partner, longtime (1930-44) president of the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of its board of trustees since 1944; in Osterville, Mass. A wealthy Philadelphian, he gave up banking to run his alma mater, without pay, for the sake of "romance and high adventure...
Jassy (Rank; Universal-International). Handsome, hard-working Margaret Lockwood as a gypsy who marries a man she loathes for the sake of a man she loves. Never mind hurrying to the movie just to find out why: it merely proves that the British can make bad ones...
...surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office trappings and scampering office boys. Through the lives of these three and the circle around them runs a pattern of restlessness and failure to find...
...take no risk whatever except when conscience compels us. We should not expend any 'risk' for the sake of having a scoop, for the sake of being the 'wise guy,' for the sake of attracting attention or being entertaining. . . . We must be scrupulously careful not to confuse what is happening with what we devoutly wish may happen...
...been under the construed of the Geology Department. But because of its growing importance to the Social Sciences and the Regional Studies Program on Russia and China, it has become less of an exact science. A minority of the professors of Geology who are interested in science for the sake of since have, therefore, favored crippling economics that threaten to wine out the entire subject. The attitude appears to be blind to the aims of General Education, which call for an increase in courses that cut across departmental lines. It is also blind to the need of the Government...