Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition was established by Mrs. Putnam with the idea that "the competition which has inspired young men to undertake and undergo so much for the sake of athletic victories might accomplish the same results in academic fields...
...again, I'll scream. No one hates the Roman Pope more than I do, but this constant repetition is getting nerve-wrecking. If you must explain this not wholly unique hobby of Senator Heflin's, whenever you write his name, for God's sake sit down and compose fifty or more variations of the phrase ". . . who mortally (I can't bear to write it) . . ." and then schedule them for successive mentions of Heflin's name...
Thus, Temugin settles down to a new life. And greatly does he relish the pleasure of hunt and feast and woman. For the sake of variety he conducts an occasional military expedition, and Ung is so well satisfied with his ward's masterly strategy that he gives him his daughter as second wife. At this point, Temugin orders a census of his family. A eunuch (fad newly imported from Turkey) reviews 18 years of hearty domesticity, reports 84 women including the two wives, 178 children, of whom 65 have died, leaving a net increment...
...sentimentalist who loves anything tinged with tradition and the unreasoning individual who sometimes values meaninglessness for its own sake may shed a silent tear over 30 and 32, no longer to be counted among the progeny of the History Department. But the true prophet of progress cannot but hail the advent of efficiency in a field where it has been sadly wanting...
...Nothing is studied for its own sake, but as it will be useful in making a practical man: thus rhetoric is cultivated, as each may be called upon to speak in the course of his life. ...Mathematics and sciences are pursued because they correspond to the utilitarian character of the country. ...The studies are as languid as in England, and the discipline as loose as in Germany...