Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football, like business, is seldom pursued for its own sake. As a prominent halfback once said: "I don't run back punts for my health." It is not for amusement that the Harvard squad charges and blocks and tackles all afternoon, and it is not for sheer love of sport that they are now getting ready to grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair...
...seventh class of the gymnasium he conceived a plan to flee to America, but when he found how many others were going there, he changes his schemed and for the sake of originality substituted Africa for the western hemisphere. But Nikolai surrendered his dreams of adventure to go to the school of Law in Petrograd, where he soon found an outlet for his instinct for the theatre in the Legal Dramatic Circle. There he appeared in "The Robbers" and 'Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man." There too he produced his first serious musical composition, the opera "The Power of Magic...
...formerly considered undesirable for too many of the spectators to become too exalted in one respect, so we have also been accustomed to put some check on our male Maenads of noise. Thus end the old cheers and their leaders have served long, faithfully, and well. For pity's sake let us restore them before--for lack of practice in the art--we make ourselves utterly and unamusingly jackassical! Hugh Whitney 1G., 1324 Massacuhsetts Avenue...
...Corporation and the appointment of Elmer E. Crowley of Massachusetts as his successor. Admiral Palmer was offered a subordinate post and declined it. His exit was followed by the exit of a number of his subordinates, some following him out of loyalty, others ousted by the Board "for the sake of efficiency...
...credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ilk, if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...