Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James J. Jeffries, ex-world's champion heavyweight pugilist: " Interviewed at my California ranch about my announced evangelistic intentions, said I: 'I don't give a darn for preachers. . . . For heaven's sake don't tell anyone I'm to become a preacher. I might be a lecturer. . . . But a preacher?-O Lord, deliver...
...HOUSE OF ALARD- Sheila Kaye-Smith-Dutton ($2.00). Here is another lengthy, careful study of the decay of an English county family by the author of Joanna Godden. The Alards were land-poor and stubborn with pride-they could afford to keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...
Aside from the fact that the pledge system of improving morals has hardly proved an enduring method of reform in college or community, there is one obvious criticism of Yale's latest action. It is characteristic of the policy of mass punishment for the sake of example rather than individual punishment according to the gravity of the case. And it is this policy, followed consistently since the beginning, which has provoked the telling accusation of boarding school methods...
...like all milleniums a system of education without grades is a thing to be approached and never attained. Ideals and ambitions differ; and certainly the follower of learning for learning's sake who hobbles along with four B's and a C, is in no position to criticise the scholar who finds satisfaction in being in Group I for the mere pleasure of leading. The trouble is that these two individuals with their differing points of view are subjected to the same mechanical system and to adapt themselves to this system they must abandon their individualism...
...author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...