Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over India's job, which is less important than it was before integration. This week India and her husband, Herbert Edwards, were heading for California, where they will rest, visit relatives and decide where to settle. India, 58. said she really quit for her husband's sake. Herbert is a quiet, patient man who, to please India, changed his politics (from Republican to Democratic), his religion (from Episcopal to Presbyterian), and his name (from Threlkeld-Edwards to Edwards; India thought the hyphen was "ridiculous"). He had quit his job at the State Department last April...
...doing so, he ignored certain responsibilities to the Law School and the University, showing himself as one who could not be trusted. With the avowed policy of the American Bar Association, we can sea no reason why the Law Review should jeopardize its members' professional possibilities for the sake of an individual who has erred so greatly in his judgment. Neither can we see entrusting him with any position of high esteem. If another year in the law School can provide him with a little judgment to complement his high natural ability, that will be all to the good...
...however, since most of our modern philosophers have turned from a headlong flight into change for the sake of change, the leadership of Adler and Hutchins seems puny indeed. It is now universally recognized that one must know what Plato said, but one must also know how much of it is the purest kind of tommy...
...imitate, placate and cajole the gods and ghosts of Africa's numberless tribes. Many of the sculptors underwent long apprenticeships, were often members of an elite in their tribes. Today, too many of them have turned to spiritless apings of their own traditions for the sake of a burgeoning export trade...
...hand to tell exactly what the new product should be and how to sell it. "Mac is especially tough on accuracy," says one colleague. "If you want to tell him something, you have to have complete support for your statement. Don't guess, and for God's sake don't just give your opinion...