Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity and reverts to fragile silk hose, mascara, rouge, lipstick, perfume, corsets and eye-strain for her husband's sake. This theme is presented with a truly incredible number of historic wheezes and situations...
...march of Prohibition's progress tramps larger and muddier across the daily page after a dubious decade of noble experimenting. The Government loses millions of dollars in revenue, over a thousand souls are slain; corruption and license go hand in hand with illegal gain, all for the sake of an Ideal...
...occupations. The board can only recommend that its findings concerning wages be accepted by employers. The law is what it is. The shock to the community is due to the sordid meanness of the richest university in the world in throwing 20 poor scrubwomen out of work for the sake of two cents an hour...
...when the student doesn't cheat he merely gets credit for obedience and fear of the monitor, if he does cheat he is punished for imposing on the confidence of his instructor. This state of affairs is insulting both to our intelligence and to our honor, and for the sake of candor either the honor system or the grammar school system should go. --Ivan Rosenthal...
Though industry has not yet found it expedient to sacrifice practicality for art's sake, intelligent progress in more effective illustration and typography represents definite progress in achieving better advertising. Accuracy and sincerity, two qualities sometimes lacking in the paraphernalia of propaganda have come, as one partial result of the Bok prizes, to be recognized as factors of the greatest value in present-day exposition of commodities. The practical application of the theory of honest and effective advertising could be taken as an adequate symbol of the usefulness of the Harvard Business School in American industry...