Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal to my fellow-countrymen and women to give me their support today in the fight against unemployment. I ask this for their own sake and for the sake of the rising generations...
...Tilden and Harold H. Hackett, former champion, there can be nothing but the deepest regret that such a shadow should be cast on one of America's cleanest sports. It has always been thought that this of all games was a true example of sport for sport's sake. This squabble over policies and personalities between two such prominent men is as unfortunate an occurence as has arisen in the history of tennis...
...felt hats out of shape in their anxiety and inability to help. These men under Coach Knox give the lie to the charge that there is no sport in college athletics: they exemplify, more nearly than it is often reached, a disinterested love of the sport for its own sake...
...added greatly to his reputation in the House of Commons by speaking indefatigably on topics about which most people were uniformed. For the sake of notoriety he was always ready to raise points on foreign affairs about which he himself knew only what I told him. for instance, I kept the public well posted through him about the Serbian regicides and the folly of our government's renewing relations with that country. So when Servia plunged us into war, he issued a vehement article and placarded the country with posters announcing TO HELL WITH SERVIA...
...champions a-jousting. On the one side was the mighty Samuel Untermyer, champion of Mrs. Stokes. On the other side rose Max D. Steuer, challenger for the irate husband. As lawyers both men rank with the Launcelots, Bediveres and Geraints, if not the Galahads. And for the sake of the rich rewards at stake, they jousted at one another as much as at the other's client...