Word: commend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public of a valuable right, but that it has made a positive contribution to both. The possibility of developing through experiment tasteful adaptations of the Harvard Arms to a variety of uses for which the Seal, even if it were legal, would be inappropriate, is one that may well commend itself to the students and the Alumni of the University. It is to be hoped that with the exhaustion within a year of the stocks of merchandise that do not conform to the new regulations, both the sentimental and the commercial interests involved will welcome the new dispensation. Here...
Last week at its midwinter meeting the Presbytery of New York (representing 35,000 Presbyterians) plumped cautiously for the Legion of Decency. First the clergymen voted down (40-10-30) a proposal to commend the Roman Catholic Church for launching the Legion. Then they unanimously adopted a resolution which simply commended the Legion, "while not agreeing in all details" with its program. The Presbytery recommended that lists of approved films be posted on church bulletin boards, as is now done in Catholic churches...
...Association of National Manufacturers, let me commend TIME in mildly ridiculing an American" type at which historians will laugh, at which most thinking Americans today indulgently smile...
...regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and widespread family, sharing its life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labors of my reign of well-nigh five and twenty years. ... I commend you to the Father of whom you and every family in Heaven and on Earth is made. God bless...
...letter of December 7, I refuted the writers who discuss "big stick control" and "the tying of Eddie Casey's hands" by stating the bald and true fact that this was not correct in any detail. I did not commend the poor football season or decry the inevitable change in the coaching system; but I went behind this obvious cause to give other reasons why many ignorant people criticize the H.A.A., and to show what little foundation these reasons have Casey's own statement on Sunday made it plain that Harvard's policy has remained firm and unchangeable...