Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uninspiring job just for the sake of discipline and something to do may have merit, but life is too short to spend much time postponing the pursuit of a well conceived career...
Harvard's system concentration eliminates the "department store" of some universities. But at the same time this system presents the danger of concentration for concentration's sake; in time the presence of too many students in the social sciences may subvert Harvard's current idea of education to that of a vocational school. The theory of education here transcends the social sciences; in doing so, it does bring students here to be educated, and, contrary to Mr. Foerster, to a certain indefinable extent every student who graduates is educated...
...forget that, he continued, and sit down. You will answer these questions as I ask them: name and address? occupation? name of each parent? Then he leaned forward. What are their ages? Realizing that this was an important question, the Vagabond only lied by seven years for the sake of his mother. Where were you born? The Vagabond responded: Hopeville. Oh, Hopeville, he said. Yes, the Vagabond said, Hopeville. Well, well, he commented...
...prices who denounces his own creations, a giver of what he calls 'the more abundant life' who orders the destruction of food while millions of his fellow-countrymen are undernourished. A great preacher of free speech who threatened the political ruin of the Senator who for the sake of principle opposed his Supreme Court 'reform.' A bitter critic of bureaucracy who has created so many bureaux that Washington cannot contain them. A stern advocate of economy who has spent more money than any President in the history of the United States...
...murder ever photographed. Helen is acquitted, Kenneth's career begun. Now publishers compete for Helen's written fictions. Only one thought clouds Kenneth's bliss: Helen has killed a man. Suppose, she hints, she hadn't really killed him: just imagine, for the sake of argument, that she was lying. . . . But Kenneth is more desolated at this possibility than by the proven homicide...