Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses are the work of the determined minority, for "most of the boys are good lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever possible, and many a Harvardevens resident has sat at home reading Hobbes' "Leviathan" when under the rules of the pre-McNiff era he might as well have been running for a late train...
...complaints was almost wistful: "If I don't get out of the hospital, for heaven's sake see that the next governor of Michigan has a place in which to live." The state has no governor's mansion. Governor Sigler lives with his wife in a three-room suite in the Olds Hotel across the street from the Capitol in Lansing. He said it gives him "cloisteritis...
...make up the King Ranch. His house is no palace. Compared to the luxury of the swimming pool, the ten-car garage and the $350,000 towered and turreted main house of the Santa Gertrudis hacienda, the Kleberg's home is tiny (seven rooms). For privacy's sake they prefer it to the enormous main house, which they use as a guest house...
Probably you were misled by the fact of his memorial tablet being placed under the statue of the Wesleys [in Westminster Abbey], but for the sake of accuracy and for the credit of the Church of England, I would call to your attention the fact that Mr. Lyte was a clergyman of that communion, and not a Methodist, as stated in your article...
...grist for the Red Army. It was also true that the U.S., whether it was ready to go as far as economic sanctions or not, was counting on goods from Eastern Europe as a basic part of the Marshall Plan. The chance of sending goods to Russia for the sake of eventually bolstering Western Europe was the kind of calculated risk that, in its new world role, the U.S. had to face...