Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speeches before the Theatregoers Club and other high-minded organizations Mr. Clive has periodically bemoaned the necessity of descending to inprior productions at the Copley theatre for the sake of luring into the box office the copeks of unappreciative Boston audiences...
...turn to the last of the three virtues, intellectual, physical moral. For the sake of the University, for the sake of your parents, for the sake of your future families, for your own sakes, fellows, keep your moral standards high...
...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 ill if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
...confessed disappointment. The object so tirelessly sought was stimulation--the awakening of the principle of growth within themselves. Their interest did not bud spontaneously. Be the course what it might, they required more than bare facts to move them. Details which seemed to be given purely for their own sake were irksome...
...Lowell likes to quote: "Educate me if you can", at least he may assume the attitude. "Interest me if you can." It is essential to distinguish between this problem and the quite different one of the advanced student who is more ready to accept the subject for its own sake as worthy of his time and study...