Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patsy. In Detroit, neighbors of the Kramer Bros. trucking company, aroused by the drivers' "loud profanity," got a court order restraining them from saying anything stronger than "for pity's sake...
...tottering for many months, collapsed in a heap of paper forms. At the end, even its once best friends admitted that trying to keep the structure propped up would do the economy more harm than good. Said the President: "There is no virtue in control for control's sake." But he had one last word of excuse for the Government's failures-"the unworkable . . . law which the Congress gave us to administer...
...part of Claverly, Watson said, and virtually no more reassignment of undergraduates from these dormitories into the Yard, or from the Houses, will be effected. After a month or more of living in one set of rooms, Watson claimed, men are not willing to make a move for the sake of convenience. He cited October 18 to 29 as the turning point in the housing picture in this respect...
Articles II through V were thrashed out at last night's meeting, with the more controversial Article I dealing with membership on the Council, being bypassed for the sake of efficiency...
...England. In its most controversial cases, Watch and Ward had been guilty of attempting to substitute the judgment of a committee of six for the considered opinions of all readers everywhere concerning the literature in doubt. When it comes to the fine difference between fifth for filth's sake, and reality for the sake of good literature, the Watch and Ward Society of 1946 once more lights its torch of emotionalism and proceeds down the glory road...