Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first in my home paper (the St. Louis Globe Democrat). So my cartoons are not made solely for syndication purposes. Issues today are often too subtle to be called black or white; and I, for one, am not going to imagine they are black or white just for the sake of creating a clever cartoon, right or wrong...
Variety for its own sake reaches into every corner of U.S. life. Even when ordering a martini-once a simple concoction of gin and vermouth cum olive -today's drinker must specify whether he wants it dry, extra dry or desiccated ; with lemon peel, olive or onion; straight or on the rocks; with domestic or foreign gin (high or low proof) or vodka, etc. Ford, which started with a single model car, now offers millions of combinations of color, interior fabric, power, styling and accessories in its autos, could theoretically run at full production for a year and never...
Mayor Fernand Lefort called in the Association of Flea Market Merchants, showed off designs for a handsome new Flea Market of 1,000 booths-even, for old times' sake, arranged in a labyrinth pattern of circling passageways, yet leaving room for five new housing blocks...
Everything gets a hearing at the Ec table. Anything goes, from the simplest to the most fantastic, including those radical notions expressed solely for argument's sake which crop up at these gatherings with such devastating consequences. Yet Galbraith was heard to close one particularly gay luncheon with the happy thought that "It is generally understood that the topics raised around this table one year will be on everybody's lips during the next...
...alters its whole purpose. Schools and universities are expected to turn out men motivated and trained to further the development of their country, rather than well-rounded individuals trained in the liberal arts. The ideal, as set forth in The Beacon, is not so much "knowledge for its sake" as "education inspired with a social purpose...