Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fair to assume that in addition to the twenty-five percent of the class who spread, there are not more than twenty-five per cent who receive so many invitations to spreads that the business of entertaining and being entertained is, for them, exhausting. Granting, for the sake of argument, what is by no means established, that all these men desire a large season of festivity, and that a three-day celebration would be less of a strain than the present one day, we have still to consider the case of the other fifty per cent-the fellows who neither...
...example of a successful plan of reserving seats for students most of whom, unlike Cambridge citizens, do not feel that they have the time to go to lectures half an hour early and waste the time between their arrival and the beginning of the lectures for the sake of securing from outsiders seats at exercises intended primarily for themselves...
...silver in world would come here. (m) European silver (1,300,000,000) would not come. (z) Their coinage ratio being only 15 1-2 to 1. (n) The scanty currency of Mexico and Central America (97,000,000,000) would not be depleted for our sake. (z) They would suffer more than they could possibly gain by sending in their silver. (o) The silver of the rest of the world (1,700,000,000) would not injure us. (z) It probably would not come at all. (y) If it did it would only come in exchange for American products...
...their places. Those which have been on exhibition are now placed in the cabinets with the remainder of the collection, where they may still be seen by those desiring to make a study of such subjects. The collection now numbers about fifteen thousand, and it is intended, for the sake of variety, to change those on exhibition each year...
...Freshmen physically capable of playing football should respond to Captain Wrightington's call for Freshman football candidates,- for the sake of the example afforded if for no other reason. One of the greatest aids toward the development of a good team is in having a large number of candidates from which to draw. Ninety-eight and Ninety-nine put winning Freshman elevens in the field; Nineteen Hundred should prove no exception...