Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...require much theoretical ability but does pose intricate problems, as chess does. In the 1930s, White wrote some rather original memoranda on the modified gold standard, but he published only one book in his life: his Harvard thesis. His consuming interest was not in economics for its own sake but as a path to political power. He once told a friend that he had originally planned to study government, "but pretty soon I realized that most governmental problems are economic, so I stayed with economics...
Swarthmore's former President John W. Nason said, "In living together, graduate students will think together and broaden each other's horizons. For the sake of the important contribution which Radcliffe has to make to higher education in this country, I hope you find ready support and achieve your goal...
...Moines Register that he had given a copy of the FBI report on White, marked for the White House, to his boss, Attorney General Clark, now a Supreme Court Justice. Drawled Caudle: "It was a sweetheart. I jumped when I read that thing ... I said, Tor God's sake, Tom, don't let that appointment go through. It will come out some day and ruin...
...haystack, foraging at night for food. One day they heard a man's voice; the man was saying that he knew the refugees were hidden near by and that he was going to inform the police. Then a woman's voice: "Why, for the sake of heaven above, do you want to do that...
...this is only a temporary illusion, a disguise put on for two days, for the sake of his weekend date. For Sunday night the oxford shirt goes into the laundry, the gray flannels back into the closet, the cordovans are scattered on the floor and the rep tie under the bed. And on Monday the fastidious youth stumbles out of bed into the same old pair of chines and the same dirty blue shirt which he sheds not until the weekend, arrives again...