Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Police Department, smothered with a plethora of "leads," was unable to produce a single clue to the woman's death. Meantime, enterprising newspapers were able to print "true stories" of the whole case with only a few names omitted for libel's sake. When the wheels of justice seemed incapable of budging in the Bischoff case, conscientious citizens began to think that the legal machinery of their town had been allowed to grow rusty with disuse, that it was high time that an investigation be made higher up. Fortnight ago, the City Club, a potent civic organization...
...Stanley Baldwin, and looked Winston Churchill in the eye, "if there are those who, if they were in the majority in our party, would approach this question in a niggling, grudging spirit?who would have had forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another?for God's sake let them choose another man to lead them! But, if they are in a minority, let them refrain from throwing difficulties in the way of those who have undertaken an almost superhuman task on the successful accomplishment of which depends the prosperity of the British Empire...
...research, both pure and applied, in connection with the development of local industries, is of the greatest interest to the educational world. In creating research departments especially adapted to meet the needs of Southampton industries, the university has no intention of sacrificing its general educational facilities for the sake of technical specialization. Training men, however, directly for jobs in the Imperial Chemical Industries Company or the British-American Tobacco Company can not fail to limit the scope of their education. Furthermore, if a university is to determine the field of its research by the type of industry common...
...success was directly responsible to his own initiative and ability. At the present time however, the factory laborer has no personal interest in the job itself and looks to it solely as the source of his income. The creative element in machine work has been sacrificed for the sake of efficiency and the result is evident both in the quality of the products and the character of the employed...
...listener. If such an inevitably mechanical performance must succeed to a notable Harvard and Oxford tradition in debating, we ought at least to go into the new order without any illusions as to what we are doing. We are sacrificing the ideal of the sport for the sport's sake to the glamor and tinsel of recognition by an audience. Henry C. Friend...