Word: commend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warmly commend your stand for having the Harvard football players numbered...
...would respectfully commend to the enraptured orators, who are now appalled an American who can leave Abraham Lincoln unadorned, while claiming possession of the lady whom James Russell Lowell-according to the infamous and unauthorized interview of Julian Hawthorne-designated as "a snuffy old woman" the text of the old time headline writer, "What Next?" And for ourselves, a we read their feverish orations on this subject, destined to rend the air, we shall ask regarding their sources of dismay the same not impertinent question.-Boston Herald
...extending its welcome to Mr. Kreisler, the Harvard Glee Club has acted in a manner which will commend itself to all sensible people. In accepting the offer of the Glee Club, Mr. Kreisler is conferring on them a high honor and is justifying them in their new policy of rendering higher class music...
There is much to commend the Harvard general examination for the college graduate. --Des Moines Register...