Word: commendability
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...radio is to be reformed, says Mrs. Gordon, the public must "become more articulate and not only condemn but commend." She herself cheerfully commends such programs as Mutual's Sing a Song of Safety, Columbia's School of the Air of the Americas, and Blue's erstwhile Music Appreciation Hour. She admits what many a reformer has discovered for himself, that educators and women's clubs cannot put on better children's programs than radio now offers. That is not their function. Instead, says Mrs. Gordon, they should spur radio to far greater efforts...
...current "Harpers," Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School surveys "The College in a Changing World" and finds only one thing to commend--the fact that the war has cut the college period to three years. Most students will agree that shortening their training period without lowering standards and requirements is to the good. As Dean Donham points out, even the student who must earn his expenses will gain since he can now hold a year-round...
...professional fighters they could afford to regard the enemy's effort with an appraising eye, to commend him for some military virtuosity that the world did not realize he possessed. They could afford it because they had given him a thumping good round. They had made an impressive start on the proof of a proposition that many strategists had believed insoluble: the Philippines can be held...
...want to thank you sincerely for having then published that interview although it ran contrary to common opinion as to where we, the Russians, stand in the great struggle of our time. And I especially want to commend the courage of your reporter who interviewed me and then wrote the article so well...
Excerpt from the "wisdom" prayer: "O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world; We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that being guided by thy Providence, we may dwell secure in thy peace. Grant to THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do thy will...