Word: commend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under such circumstances is illustrated by the "Introduction" signed by Professors Hocking and Perry of the Department of Philosophy, and by myself, to the "Official Report of the Committee of Investigation of Police Tactics in Charlestown on May 17, 1934," published in June by the Harvard Liberal Club. I commend to you the reading of that report in full, together with the accompanying documents. Arthur N. Holcombe...
...regrettable that the CRIMSON failed to acknowledge and commend the social affair held by the Model League of Nations last Friday night. The CRIMSON, as a Harvard publication, should extend its congratulations to the visitors of the Model League for holding a model dance which the various Houses could well accept as a standard. The deplorable characteristics of Harvard dances, with their excessive stag lines, unbecoming quantity of intoxicated persons, and over-officious ushers, were decidedly absent in the dance held by the Model League of Nations...
...chance for the first time in a generation to appreciate the layman's point of view as governments fell, week after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative and political machine of France, to rid it of blocs, to break with deep-rooted traditions, is likely to be disappointed...
...rule of law, the British Dicey, was very careful to draw its circle so that international law was excluded, excluded as an inhabitant of that legal periphery more closely related to public ethics than to law. Anyone who has examined, with whatever percipience, the history of the League must commend Dicey's distinction as well drawn. For the kind of legal outland which it described is very close to Geneva; a legal outland in which all must be trusted to the arbitrary will of the individual, to the sovereignty of an irresponsible and independent group which is nothing more than...
...convention the bankers planned to ignore Jesse Jones's preferred stock plan. He heard of their intention, sent word that he wanted to be heard by the resolutions committee, marched in on a night session of the committee and put his foot down. Result: The convention voted to "commend to the thorough and thoughtful consideration of all bankers" the opportunity to sell preferred stock to the R. F. C.-which might be taken as a recommendation or as advice to think twice. Nothing did the bankers say about freer credit...