Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of the shares to spring from £1,600,000 to some £2,800,000 within six months. On this point Horace Imber, advertising manager of the Daily Mail from 1912 to 1921 testified instructively: "Lord Northcliffe had the unbusinesslike policy of running a newspaper for the sake of news and not primarily for what he could gain from advertisers.... He maintained a fixed subordination of advertising space to news space.... When Lord Rothermere took control the space given to advertising was increased and much news was crowded out.... That was business. I do not echo Lord Rothermere...
Posterity has excused the crimes of Strafford and Hastings; they were committed for the sake of great public interests and were justified by their efficacy. Fall's greatest crime was his hopeless incompetency If it were possible to try an official for utter incapability, he would merit the maximum sentence: He is a living argument that idiocy should be a statutory offense...
...lead afterwards. His preparation for politics or business lay in the extra-curriculum activity of the place, not in its direct teaching. Charles William Eliot demanded that the teaching should be interesting; that it should be so arranged as to appeal to the student for its own sake and have some relation to the things which he was going to do with himself afterward. We may differ with him as to some of his theories of teaching or some of his ideas as to what the college course should emphasize; for like most successful reformers, he had a rather blind...
...uncertainty of good ice, but the touch football plan will be used instead and a series of informal pick-up teams will have opportunity to use their abilities, good, bad, and in different, toward the common goal of joy in the sport, or sport for sport's sake. And the introduction of this sport is, after all, the fundamental reason for and justification of intramural sports. There are many negative remedies for commercialism in intercollegiate athletics, but probably none by them possess the tonic qualities of a successfully applied "athletics for all" policy...
...characteristic sentiments on liberty, death, diet and various conventions including matrimony which he soon voices, it comes evident that our hero is Poet Shelley, until now supposed to have been drowned, recovered and cremated on the Leghorn beach. This identity is masked, however, for the fiction's sake, under a name Lord Byron used to call his lonely-hearted friend, Shiloh...