Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villagers of Kawaidani needed a new primary school in 1926, but they hardly had a yen to their name. Somebody suggested that if they saved all the money they blew on sake they could have schools aplenty. Last week, after 20 years of self-imposed prohibition, 310 Kawaidani farmers counted up their savings. They had piled up 2½ million yen-enough to build several schools. Their duty done, a new school opened, the village's entire population leaped off the wagon together...
...each social order . . . give the scientist a free hand and provide him with the environment and tools he needs; make him accessible to students, for he is essentially a teacher, make the university his home, and otherwise, for humanity's sake, leave him alone...
...spouting wit who lets his nose get in the way of his love affairs. An iconoclast, embattled against a pedantic society, he sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword, and a magnificent soul to convince the right woman. This is not sound, inspired drama, nor is Rostand to be rated as a major dramatic poet...
Replied Alpha Xi Delta's national president, Mrs. Beverly Robinson, a Washington clubwoman: ". . . I'm sorry this happened both for [Crystal's] sake and for ours. But I expect the girls up there thought she was an exotic and interesting person-the way you would think of someone from a foreign country. . . . When other fraternities decide to [admit Negroes] we probably will too. We don't try to be different." Her advice to the Vermont chapter: they should have told Crystal to form a Negro sorority. At Vermont, this would have to be a one-woman...
...what gives the film its modest greatness and its permanent value is its record of one of the few beneficent giants of this century: Toscanini. Often the camera shows that he is singing, shouting, speaking through the music, and for the sake of history it is too bad that his voice is lost in the sound-track din. But the face itself shows God's plenty. Incredibly concentrated, vigilant and severe, it has the intensity of a crucible, the ultimate, almost masklike human magnificence which may be seen in the sculpture of Michelangelo. This face is all the more...