Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gloucester, accompanied by the Duchess, stopped off in Paris on the way home from an East African hunting trip to spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring the Duke of Windsor back into the royal family circle. The King's private plane flew the Gloucesters from Marseille to Paris and the British Embassy arranged the details of the meeting...
From the first flood of applications TIME draws this further condition: letters must be brief, written in advertisement form, and, for the writer's sake, not plain dull...
...melodic line is too strong to identify him exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention. His harmonies are bold and original; the dissonances resulting from free polyphony rather than arbitrary use of discord for its own sake. "A Pagan Poem" shows the composer mystic, idyllic even macabre. The modal atmosphere often felt in his music is the result of a strong impression made on him by the Russian liturgy with which he grew familiar as a young man visiting in Russia...
...attract the independents with a "liberal" proposal, the Republicans have seemingly embraced the Townsend Plan. Actually, they favor only a hearing in Congress, believing that the President will in the end blackball it. For labor's sake Mr. Saltonstall desires to eliminate the red tape in the employees' compensation law and to clean up the fly-by-night employment agencies. In addition, he hopes to remove the bad spots from the civil service and to provide reasonable old-age compensation. These intentions do not paint an administrator vibrant with reform zeal, but they do show one who will refrain from...
...Hicks stuck out his head in representing the New Masses last week. Although many students, particularly those in the social sciences, favor the policy of encouraging instructors to participate in outside affairs, because it gives nourishment of a practical kind to their teaching, it is apparent that for the sake of Harvard such men must recognize a limit to their actions. They are in the same position as the President of the United States, who is always regarded as President whether he is speaking in behalf of the Democratic Party or the Warm Springs Foundation. Remembering their connection with Harvard...