Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their loom-woven relatives. The finer fabrics, requiring more rows of shorter stitches to the inch, are still a problem. Toot-Light. Changing the signals automatically at regular time intervals at the intersection of a main highway and a less heavily traveled road would congest the highway for the sake of a possibly empty side-road. Charles Adler, Baltimore signal engineer, has invented a device which interrupts the heavy traffic only when necessary. A three-colored signal light (red, amber, green) stands at the corner showing green to the highway, red to the road. Close by, on the less important...
...first primary where the Brown Derby competed directly with its only serious antagonists, Candidates Reed and Walsh. It was the home state of the Brown Derby's bitterest enemy, William Gibbs McAdoo, and Mr. McAdoo had instituted the Walsh campaign just for old time's sake, in memory of two McAdoo nominations blocked by Candidate Smith in 1920 and 1924. Candidate Reed perhaps served as a slight buffer between the two, but the returns were: Smith, 132,006; Reed, 57,586; Walsh...
...violent did the gentleman become that a third bobby had to be called to subdue him, whereupon he implored: "For God's sake...
...evil doings. The son, when he grows to lusty manhood, follows his father's footsteps into a similar domestic snare; he, too, when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course; for so doing, her mother-in-law kills her. The thoughtful content of this problem melodrama is not, obviously, of great value; but the actors use their bellows loudly and they make the play exciting...
...ancient struggle in the realm of education between the advocates of a "practical" education and those seeking culture for its own sake enters another phase with the publication of the latest report of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Department of History, Government and Economics, as one dealing in the actions of men rather than with their thoughts, has yielded to ascendancy in number of students to the Department of Modern Languages, which had held it up to the last six years. To be sure, the difference is small, but a gain of nearly 70 students...