Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defend his claims: instead he has nicely side stepped any discussion of whether or not too many people are seeking higher education and has taken a slightly hazy attitude which, summarized, appears to say that he either does not choose to air his opinion or he is, for the sake of a foundation, jumping at a conclusion which he is not at all sure to be justified...
great liar is entirely ignoble. J. Daniel Thompson, for instance, pretends for. the sake of his daughter's admiration, to be understudy to Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac, whereas in reality he clanks chains and chews raw meat in the role of Wild Man at the 14th Street Palace of Living Wonders. Before that he was a vender of snake oil and Indian cure; and his compound sentences, derived from long professional practice, are rolled with an unctuous grandeur by George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that...
...points on which it is safe to advise a thousand men without boring some or insulting others. Every Freshman is an individual--even before he is a Freshman. When he comes to Harvard he is in no way urged to yield up that individuality merely for the sake of conforming. There are either three thousand types of Harvard graduates or there is none. The Harvard type is a phantom type, its residence in Olympus or Hades, its character mythical. In four years the Freshman who now explores the cis-Charles regions will leave college with many new and changed ideas...
...among the authors of all Europe. One series is biography?spiritual portraits (of the type done by Gamaliel Bradford in the U. S.) of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy (so far). The second series, to which the three stories in this volume belong, consists of novelettes written for the sake of studying intense types of men and women under the microscope of psychology, in which Dr. Zweig is a scientific as well as an artistic adept. The five volumes so far completed in this series have sold about 260,000 volumes to date in Europe...
James K. Trimble of Philadelphia telegraphed: ". . . We are members of the New York Stock Exchange and deal in long investments. . . . For God's sake do not canonize two saints for future generations of Reds...