Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obey. The Rome backed water. "Throw me a line!" Water streamed down the open conning tower hatch. Eight men asleep in the torpedo room catapulted from their beds. The wireless operator pressed his key frenziedly. Water, heavy and pitiless, swung open doors, sloughed about carelessly. "For God's sake, throw a line to us!" Six men on duty in the engine room reached for levers, were whirled away by the inrushing torrent. In the choppy waves struggled sailors knocked overboard by the impact. Sinking fast into the ocean were the men caught below, clambering frantically up onto the pipes...
...most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object of aviation, speed should be sacrificed for the sake of safety and comfort...
...President awaited serenely the adjournment of Congress, smug and trim in the cool White House. He told Reporters that he enjoyed the lassitudinous Washington climate during July and August. However, he added, he believed in getting away for a little while, if only for the sake of change in environment, that, if the Capitol were in the Adirondacks, he would leave just the same. News arrived, simultaneously with the President's announcement, that one Andrew Bishop, who lives near the Coolidge summer camp, had frozen his ears on a frosty night last week...
Baron Banbury: "For Heaven's sake let there remain one spot in England where a male may be at peace. . . . Besides women lack the qualifications to become legislators...
...last week the Senate tore its hair, rent the air with cries and filled the Congressional Record with words for the sake of the nation's farmers...