Word: sake
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...government has almost nothing to offer for the guarantees which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom as Bolshevist Russia itself...
...Moors ended his talk by urging the members present to vote. . . for a government by parties." This is exactly the reverse of Mr. Moors' meaning. He clearly made a distinction between voting for an issue--namely the League of Nations, as opposed to victory for party for its own sake. He showed that the Republican party in this election cannot pledge itself firmly on the chief issue because the party is divided on the question of a League...
...accuse us of being friendly towards England, is that a digrace and a shame? Have we not reason to be friendly to the nation with which we fought side by side in the great war? Why should we be moved to give offense to a friend for the sake of a people who did their best to knife us in the back during the great war, with their pro-German activities? As for friendly terms with Ireland, does Miss Taff know that American sailors were not allowed shore leave in Irish ports because attempts would be made against their LIVES...
...uncertain terms you denounced an attack made upon your College on Sunday night, September 26. The attack was hard to swallow, and aroused your wrath. Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the attack was true--that one of the most famous institutions for higher learning in America, the land of the free, does in spirit espouse the cause of the same military tyranny from which we so proudly rescued ourselves 150 years ago. If that is true, would not silence have been your safest weapon in concealing Harvard's shame...
...wonder why a good American espouses the cause of English Tories, a group of people who either would not recognize him, or who if they did for the sake of gaining their purposes would do so in a sickeningly patronizing and scornful way? This part of the picture always makes me smile...