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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Governor Driscoll, Ives knows that there is a large difference between presenting constructive alternatives and disagreeing just for the sake of disagreement. "We can't just say, 'no, no, no,'" he said. "We've got to have answers to some of the gigantic problems ... we are facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Not No, No, No | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...from those times. The worst thing that Hitler did to us-and he did much to us-was that he forced us into the shame of having to bear the name of German simultaneously with his henchmen. We dare not forget those things that people, for convenience's sake, like to forget. We dare not forget the Nurnberg laws, the Jewish star, the burning of synagogues, the deportation of Jews into foreign lands, misery and death. The gruesome thing about these events is not that they involved the fanaticism of the pogroms . . . The cold gruesomeness of national pedantry, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Courage to Love | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...result, said Berlin, is that scholars and intellectuals find they can no longer believe in their scholarly or intellectual pursuits for their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very bad way . . . Few great works of art, or great discoveries of science, have ever been made by men with one eye on the social consequences of their activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Helpers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

BRING IN THE PINKERTON MEN, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE--NOW--WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...found at his desk as early as 8 a.m. and as late as mid night. Oklahoma's shrewd, hard-working Coach Bud Wilkinson, 34, begins his day at 7:30. He, too, exploits the organization of manpower, but with variations on the theme. For old time's sake, he uses versa tile Halfback George ("Junior") Thomas on both offense and defense, usually alternating the rest of his backfield whenever the ball changes hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Four | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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