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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rehearses an old play which is being put back in repertory. Then there is a half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going to her dressing room for the evening's appearance. For efficiency's sake she lives on the roof of her theatre, with her four dogs and several canaries. The predominant color of the menage and all that is Le Gallienne?suits, stationery, draperies?is a rich blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake of sports is ever gaining a larger following among college students in the East, if not alumni, than might have been fancied some years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLLOWING THE TEAM | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...regret that Harvard and Princeton are still at loggerheads in its day this encounter was buoyed up by an old and interesting tradition Football, like wine, is poor stuff until it has been aged. I would not go across the room to turn a radio dial for the sake of hearing Ohio State and Northwestern. Not, you understand, that these institutions are not admirable, but their rivalry is of much too recent a vintage to be very thrilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...sake pay out this ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Away on a Party | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...ratified merger with Corn Exchange Bank (TIME, Sept. 30) the Bank reiterated its position as greatest U. S. bank, became greatest world bank. Now Mr. Mitchell, who used to say that he was too poor to eat at Child's, instead, for reputation's sake, fed at expensive hotels, could (but did not) eat at lunch wagons or hot dog stands. Definitely, finally, he had arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Troubles of Mitchell | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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