Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thine, to use for all nations' sake...
...foes without, progresses on a very unrefined level, and a few intimate glimpses fail to humanize a somewhat stereotyped symbol. Contemporary political significance, injected into the concluding scene when Ivan successfully turns to his people for support against his treacherous lieutenants, does unnecessary violence to subtlety for the sake of propaganda...
...responsible for the enthusiasm shown by Classics concentrators in their fields--or it may be that the voluntary and what is often called the "impractical" nature of the Classics assures automatically the enrollment of only these students who enjoy the work, and are interested in it for its own sake. Whatever the reason, such things as unrequired, spontaneous themes and outside work are familiar occurrences to Classics professors, and the general enthusiasm of concentrators is clearly evidence by such organizations as the active Classical Club...
Half the world accused Mussolini of having instigated the brutal murder. For appearance sake, Mussolini had Dumini and four accomplices put on trial. Dumini got off with two months in jail. Last January, 23 years later, he was put on trial again by the re-established Italian Republic. He took the stand in Rome's Court of Assizes, looking as jaundiced as the walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound...
...Horatian of parts, made a plea for "the so-called dead language." Wrote he: "To say that one is going to 'use' Latin in one's daily life is nonsense. . . . But it seems to me there is too little education for its own sake. I do believe that if a boy wants to become a banker, he should emphasize such subjects as economics. . . . I also believe , . . that the so-called 'useless' things-Latin, for example-will help...