Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...obey and as far as concerns the essentials of good city government, one feels that in the best German cities one has the most substantial administration of the world. The German method offers a contrast to that of the United States since the former is government for the sake of the city, and the latter is government for the sake of the officials...
...present themselves most prominently to a citizen of the United States. In finishing, Professor Peabody remarks that the American people, who are certainly the quickest-witted of the nations, will not long be so dull as to keep a protective tariff on our way of municipal work for the sake of party politics. It may be a wise policy for us to shut out of the country the importation of good Saxon stockings, but at least we might have free trade in good Saxon ideas...
...Physics just as in the elements of Chemistry is essential to a good education whatever specialty the student may take up. The making of these Physics lectures voluntary, then, instead of compulsory in no way detracts from their importance; it merely invites the men to listen for the sake of learning something to their benefit instead of compelling them to attend in order to pass an examination...
...Winsor says: "When we view the character of Columbus in its influence upon the minds of men, we find some strange anomolies. Before his passion was tainted with the ambition of wealth, and its consequence, and while he was urging the acceptance of his views for their own sake, it is evident that he impressed others in a way that never happened after he had secured his privileges. It is after this turning point of his life that we begin to see his falsities and indiscretions, or, at least, to find record of them...
Njal was fair of aspect and beardless, and so great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...