Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the strangest survivals of save acres is the prevalent student practice of carrying lucky coins, lockets, and watch charms. A few men transport combs, knives, and keys whence usefulness has long departed, for the sake of their necromantic properties. Feminine vanity cases and powder compacts are also cherished, perhaps more nor their inspirational than for their thaumaturgie value...
...these proposals. It seems quite doubtful, for instance, that the provision against substitutions unless a player is physically exhausted or incapacitated will have the desired effect. This logically would place greater emphasis on the outstanding athlete and corresponding less on the principles of athletics for all and for the sake of the sport which are essential positive elements in any reconstruction program. The other points are by no means novel but on the whole they represent the sanest portion of the reform opinion...
...ommission. In pursuing the case to its ultimate conclusion--official inquiry--the World has probably earned as many enemies as friends. Certainly the brotherhood of the press seems to be strained; South Carolina papers retorted that the Pulitzer journal was meddling in other people's business merely for the sake of sensationalism. Very wisely the World took no notice of such accusations other than to comment succinctly on the sensitiveness of the unjust. By their really frenzied editorials, which were not only foolish but also in bad taste, the southern papers have further incriminated their state and prejudiced the public...
...alone gave excuse and meaning to my design. Lastly, the editors of Liberty, possessed by an extreme Annanias complex, left me to shoulder the blame for their casuistry by appending the following editors' note:--"The article is printed as submitted, except that certain elisions have been made for the sake of brevity...
...sending a copy of this letter to the Dean of Harvard College and to the Administrative Board. I trust that at your earliest opportunity you will be good enough to publish this letter from a former editor of your paper and publish it without "certain elisions the sake of brevity." It I could have guessed that my ideas were to suffer a change into something so rich and strange. I should never have written for Liberty at all. Believe me very sorry for a misunderstanding which I was totally incapable of preventing. FREDERICK DEWOLFE PENGREE...