Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business after its enrollment dropped to 400 from 14,000 in 1946). The Soble spy case was so handled that it brought confessions, not controversy. Such is the Brownell security record that FBI Director John Edgar Hoover, no man to low-rate the threat of Communism for the sake of pleasing any Attorney General who happens to be his boss, says the Communist Party in the U.S. is now "stunned...
...look back over, Ming masters became eclectics, painting in several different styles. The mark of the age was its delight in intimate, everyday scenes, anecdotal and often merely decorative. But with the custom of copying from old masters, along with an absorption in technique for its own sake, art came perilously close to feeding upon itself. The famed three-volume painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories. Beginning painters were expected to be proficient...
...unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit badges to be won for his parents' sake, is awed by such gestures. When Josh meets Miri, he is similarly drawn to her as an exotic, only to find that she is simpler and more straightforward than most American girls. The trio's relationship comes to a head when Lexy decides to make peace with lis father...
...sake of correct information of prospective students, I would like to point out that, subject to approval by the Committee on Educational Policy, (1) Nat. Sc. 2 will be given by Gerald Holton in the fall term, and P. LeCorbeiller in the spring term, and they are establishing the overall program in close collaboration; (2) there will be optional laboratory exercises replacing some of the essays, and (3) , there will be optionable sections; in which relevant parts of the calculus will be taught and put to use. P. LeCorbeiller...
...they lead it? Their two guiding principles were both profoundly Jewish-ritual purity and apocalypticism, i.e., the expectation of the end of the world. They saw their desert retreat as symbolizing the desert wanderings of the Jews under Moses. And their asceticism was not for its own sake but a preparation for the new dispensation. Like the first Christians they held all things in common, looking forward to the characteristics of life in the New Age: unity, brotherhood, love. They identified themselves, the Congregation of the Poor, with the "meek who shall inherit the earth...