Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial collapse and the consequent reorganization of the Undergraduate Laundry makes it impossible to keep on temporizing any longer with the problem of undergraduate business undertakings. For the sake of a few ventures that have ended in failures due to poor management or other causes, the University cannot afford to let the remaining businesses fall into disrepute and so fail. Nor must the University make it any harder for the man who has to work for a part of his education, so long as it allows students to enter intending to do this...
...make a revolution for the sake of a revolution, rather our will to build up the new German Reich required the removal of the old powers that had oppressed...
...sake of the plot, we will not question the possibility of the picture's main device, an instrument panel that can be read by a blind man. But there is no excusing Myrna Loy's crash scene in which she turns into the ship flying next to her by applying full aileron...
...assume, for the sake of illustration, that the plan is pushed to actual enactment by the sheer zeal and determination of its believers. ... In the end, I suspect, there would be violent inflation - a marking up of prices of everything to figures at which the business turnover could stand a tax of $24,000,000,000 a year. At that point, the folk over 60 might be getting their $200 a month - but they would find they could not buy the automobiles they now think they could. A haircut would cost say $2 ; a sexagenarian meal of bread and milk...
...tourist trade has been that of taking monkey-toed Tahitian girls out of their pareus and putting them into cheap print dresses. Last week this matter reached Paris and French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin, a Parisian who has lately been preaching cooperation with the colonies, for the sake of French exports...