Word: sakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Abraham, conversing with the angel on the plan of Mamre, secured the promise that Sodom would be saved for the sake of ten righteous. The ten righteous were not found, and Sodom perished. We must expect that we--if we are Sodom, and the cowardly are righteous--will also perish, unsaved by our ten or so righteous. We may bear our doom gladly, if we first get rid or the righteous...
...brave man will die for the sake of honor. Should he refuse to faint for the sake of cleanliness...
...castle, a flintlock over the mantelpiece his artillery, and his neighbors and himself the defending army. At the call of the tocsin from every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally the embattled citizens failed to defend their castles with the utmost skill, and the foreign soldiery refused to melt at the psychological moment. However, excepting such minor failures, a like scheme of war was a locally tremendously successful...
...Yale, as at the University, all intercollegiate athletics have been given up, spot for sport's sake becoming more evident. The baseball team, after winning five straight victories, wound up its season with the election of R. F. Snell, 1918, regular second baseman on last year's team, as captain for next year. Intramural contests have been started however, and the first game between the college and Sheffield was played Saturday. With the election of J. D. Nagel, 1918, a pole-vaulter, as next year's track captain, the official season of the track team was brought to a close...
...what was to be expected, and what the university authorities are glad to see. We have no desire to encourage men to come to the university when we feel that they should be doing their duty elsewhere, but we feel that the universities must be kept open for the sake of those who cannot go to the front for one reason or another, and also especially in the case of the Faculty of Medicine to keep up the necessary supply of medical...