Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were millions of us with sense enough to appreciate the superior qualities of Herbert Hoover; millions of us who hoped, for America's sake, that he would be returned to the White House. But I don't think any of us were fatuous enough to regard one school's vote of 4-to-1 in his favor as evidence of amazing popularity...
...easy to understand the discrepancy between press stories and the ever-swelling bitterness of personal remarks from the great middle class, who see themselves as the helpless football in the great game between Roosevelt versus America. We are willing to be kicked a few times for the sake of America, but not just for the sake of making a Red Grange hero out of a politician whose "most amazing accomplishment" during a year set aside for him to experiment, with the entire facilities of the country at his disposal, was to ring up a good score for personal popularity...
...just condemnation by those idealistic individuals who denounce any system of honors, or even of grading, on the grounds that it obscures the true objects of education in a search for glory. General honors are obviously sought by those priggish souls who value a "cum" solely for vanity's sake, rather than for any real initiative and genuine scholarship which such recognition ought certainly to represent. Moreover, the similar terminology of the degree "cum laude" in General Studies, and of that in Special Studies does not offer an adequate or equitable initiative requisite for each. Under the present system...
...amateurs. This sonata, written in the great creative year of Mozart is one of the more serious sonatas, though it is generally in a pleasant and jolly mood. There are, however, frequent lapses into solemn and, plaintive movement even in the Allegro and Presto. The conventional ornaments for the sake of virtuosity are scarce. Menuhin's own playing is restrained in the classic traditional but always virile. "His Master's Voice" has recorded the Mozart sonata. Another recent recording by "His Master's Voice" is the great "Passacaglia and Fugue in C" of Bach, played by Marcel Dupre in good...
Germans love to walk for walking's sake. But they have never grown enthusiastic over walking for golf's sake. All Germany has only 42 golf clubs, against some 2,000 clubs and courses in England and Scotland and 5,600 in the U. S. Last week, as much to make jobs as anything else, the Nazi high command prepared to foist golf on the German people. It ordered the exclusive clubs to lower their membership fee to two marks for adults, one mark for minors. It prepared to dot Germany with public courses, lower the cost...