Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...however, from habit, from loyalty, and perhaps from wholesome fear, to put themselves in the attitude of rebels. But when the detachment at the bridge fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force of militia, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake fire!" This was the beginning of the Concord fight. The day went more and more against the regulars, and about noon they began to retreat. The farmers pursued them to Lexington, where, near two in the afternoon their numbers were augmented by a large reinforcement sent out from Boston, under...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the students at large. - (a) Waste of time watching games. - (b) Injury to health watching games. - (x) Dampness and cold. - (c) Hysterical excitement at periods of the great games. - (d) Dulls sense of honor. - (x) Little meannesses condoned for the sake of victory. - (e) Dulls feelings. - (f) Establishes false ideals...
...marked artistic ability. One day he found a book on art by Leonardo da Vinci. From that moment he gave his father no rest until he was apprenticed to an itinerant artist named Steele, with whom he stayed two years. He then moved to Kendal, where, unfortunately for her sake as well his own, he married Mary Abbott. At Kendal he lived until 1762, painting heads for three guineas apiece, and fancy sketches, which he raffled in the town hall...
...Moxom, of Springfield, preached in Appleton Chapel last night. He spoke about salvation, taking for his text the words of St. Paul: "And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with...
...with some bright exceptions, is deaf to any call for it. This call must come to the universities, with their intelligent, strong young men. Shall these beautiful temples of learning educate men to love the true and the beautiful and to know good and evil only for their own sakes, or for the sake of the whole world...