Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sake. Men like Williams and Bailey have worked hard in recent years to raise the artists' pay scale. But few New York cartoonists will send their work to David Smart's Esquire, in Chicago, until it has been rejected by their favorite magazine. Reason: Esquire still pays as low as $22.50 for stoppers...
...committee's criterion of a satisfactory answer was that the U.S. should never again be caught as desperately short of rubber as it was in World War II. For the sake of efficiency the committee ruled out Government ownership; proposed sale of the "basic" butadiene and copolymer plants to private industry. These are the main lot of low-cost producing units with a capacity of 450,000 tons a year, about two-thirds prewar U.S. rubber consumption. "Fringe" plants (not planned as permanent) are already being disposed...
...week's end, never-say-die Francis Walter asked the President "for heaven's sake" to veto the bill...
...rank and class and enter a commercial career.'' Sokubei put it more bluntly. "The Mitsuis," he said, "must get money." Some time before 1650 he put away his two samurai swords and-like many a British aristocrat of the same period-became a brewer. Soon Mitsui sake was selling fast throughout Yedo's thirsty red-light district...
...Roman Catholic Church ever tolerate other religions? '. . . Pope Leo XIII explained this point tersely when . . . he wrote: "The Church indeed deems it unlawful to place the various forms of divine worship on the same footing . . . but does not on that account condemn those rulers who, for the sake of securing some great good or of hindering some great evil patiently allow custom or usage to be a kind of sanction for each form of religion having its place in the state...