Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present railroad law invites mergers for the sake of efficiency, provided that they do not destroy a reasonable competition, and the Interstate Commerce Commission will consider the proposed merger in this light...
...mouth. At first she refused and then, one night, "Suddenly I felt I must obey," she said in a soft, low voice that sounded throughout the court with dread distinctness. Her lover had said to her: "When you realize that all hope is gone, then for pity's sake save me unnecessary suffering. Shoot me in the mouth; that's the best place." She took a pistol, held the muzzle close to her lover's lips, turned away her head, fired...
President (Premier) Cosgrave, who has recently returned to Ireland from the south of France, where he basked in the sunshine for his health's sake, finds himself in a difficult situation. Bye-elections for ten constituencies must be held, and this in the face of Republican attacks and adverse criticism from his own party has given Mr. Cosgrave food for grave reflection...
...Senator is fond of the Scriptures, devoted to the Holy Writ; and let me say to him he reminds me of a passage, as I consider him in connection with his minority criticisms: 'Deal gently, for my sake, with the young man Absalom...
Some ladies in a play by William Congreve decided that they would elect to membership in their female club, for decorum's sake, one single man. They therefore enrolled two well known dandies. Witty were these ladies; they knew, indirectly, something of the relationship of talent to genius. It takes, for example, many good fiddlers to make a great one. The Flonzaleys play excellently well, yet if the alacrity of their 40 fingers were compressed into a single hand, if the sweetness that shakes from their four wooden boxes were in a single tone, only then would their plural...