Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authority: A Manual of Prayers For Use of the Catholic Laity, P. 413,415, John Murphy Co., Baltimore, Md., 1889. Will you please make this correction for the truth's sake...
...disrespect is intended. For brevity's sake, TIME will continue to refer to "the U. S." - unless, of course, the majority of subscribers...
...PoIyglots, the writing of which has occupied his last two years in some secluded Tyrolese hamlet. He dedicates the book to Edith Wharton because, when he published Futility (with the aid of the late Katherine Mansfield), Mrs. Wharton, to whom he was a stranger, wrote: "Do, for the sake of all of us, keep it up!" His one other book, Anton Chechov: A Critical Study, has, as a critical study, no peer...
...Admitting, for the sake of argument, that Fall suggested full development of the reserve by lease and the exchange of oil for fuel oil in storage, and Denby adopted the suggestion and executed the lease after mature consideration, as the evidence shows he did, to hold that it was not Denby's official act is, it seems to us, little short of branding him as an imbecile...
...Just where is the line to be drawn in printing news ? . . . For instance, a newspaper might for conscience' sake spare a man from the gossip of his neighbors concerning his financial inability, yet tear out his vitals by publishing the disgrace of a loved one. A woman's financial standing is held inviolate, but the same instrument which protects her name in that respect would not suppress her moral downfall if public record were made of the fact...