Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...viewed Everest as a challenge worth taking for challenge's sake alone. In that brief answer, Mallory focused his energy on the job itself--the desire actually to climb, not to have climbed or to have returned victorious, but to climb and so conquer the mountain step by step. The pleasure and the motivation was in the action, not in the outcome--or expected outcome. Perhaps that is what John Mallory meant by requesting that the body remain undisturbed--his father died in the process of taking the challenge he had chosen. Whether he had completed it or failed...
...What ties the broad range of research work that's done here together is that every individual pursues scholarship and pure research for its own sake, and follows his own research interests," said Georgia Widden, public affairs officer for the institute. "There isn't any concern whatsoever for applications. No one is ever asked what is going to be the practical effect of their work...
...Rising Star: A Brand Name History," and the Endpaper by Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan. We resolve to find fame, be it brief, be it phony--Adam Taub becomes a precocious pre-frosh and Noah Oppenheim leads a troupe to New York City to hit the big time--all for the sake of Fifteen Minutes...
...response to comments about the current trend of activism on campus concerning sweatshop labor and a living wage, Sleeper warned against opinions not founded on firm beliefs--expressed for sake of expression...
...response to comments about the current trend of activism on campus concerning sweatshop labor and a living wage, Sleeper warned against opinions not founded on firm beliefs-expressed for sake of expression...