Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve years old, but I always have, and always will, detest any being (or fiend, as Subscriber Marlborough put the German, Schwarz) who would, for the sake of anything, make life miserable for any dumb beast or animal. When I read the article on "Horses" [TIME, May 31, GERMANY] where the German moving picture producer, Schwarz, sprung a trap under two horses to make them tumble down the cliff onto the rocks below for the sake of making moving pictures of their agony, I felt as one would if someone would suddenly tell you that a certain man had tortured...
Amalgamation, it is true, might bring certain conveniences of administration; or just as easily a greater opportunity for corruption. Certainly, integration simply for the sake of a larger total of humanity under a single name is scarcely desirable...
...Unions, if not by the more radical leaders among the miners. Certainly, the Premier's proposal, based on the Coal Commission's report represents a solution which will protect the public as well as the two rival factors of production. The subsidy, which drains the common treasury for the sake of a single class, will be continued only until the industry can be reorganized along efficient lines. Then the better paid miners will have to accept a cut in wages...
...advantages of a subdivision into colleges have, I think, been made clear by the Student Council Committee's report. In promoting friendliness and cooperation between faculty and students, in stimulating athletic sports for their own sake rather than as public spectacles, in increasing the thoroughness and humanity of instruction given, the subdivision would be of inestimable value...
...hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking and a fierce conflagration, and the hero sails away...