Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholarship, the boarding school will be able to enter fewer and fewer men, and that those who do succeed in passing their entrance examinations will either soon be dropped out or stay in only because of laborious efforts, which, in most cases will be grudgingly made for the sake of being able to maintain a standing in athletics or other outside activities...
...Impossible!" the Navy ejaculated. "One of our first-line ships, the Florida, is out of commission because there are no funds to repair her boilers. We have no funds to convert our old coal-burners to modern oil-burners. For economy's sake we have been obliged to concentrate all our fast oil-burners in the Pacific, leaving only our slow coal-burners in the Atlantic where oil is more expensive. The Naval Air Service is inadequate; yet the Director of the Budget has amputated 60% of our requests for next year. We were refused $30 million to modernize...
...conditions in Southern towns, I know. His light color makes it possible for him to proceed in many cases without interference, where a man who was obviously a Negro would fail. He has, however, very nearly been killed several times, has exposed himself to great risks for the sake of his job, and is a fearless, clear-headed propagandist for the tolerance that he knows is the right of his race, in the sight of God. That his feeling is not a calm one can be shown by a quotation from an article of his in the New York Evening...
Certain critics, who shall also be name less for protection's sake, have heralded Uncensored Recollections as one of the greatest contributions to Continental biography of the decade, if not of the Century. In point of fact, it is nothing but a book of gossip, biographically useless. It will make the reader wish that the author's memory had been a little more accurate and that someone had censored the product. It does, however, bring up a nice point of honor: is it compatible with the conduct of gentlemen to publish to the world the indiscretions...
...difference between a strike and a mutiny, that the penalties for mutiny were very severe, and that, all in all, it would be better to go to drill. To these persuasions all but some 206 yielded. The obdurate ones, believing firmly in collective bargaining, refused to budge. For the sake of ammunition and humanity they were not shot. Plans were made to court-martial those who had been active in insubordination and to discharge the rest "without honor...