Word: commendable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty will meet this afternoon to give its blessing to an emasculated CEP report. After two meetings to discuss the report, there are few encouraging signs to indicate that the Faculty vote will do more than commend the modified version of the report...
Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy and Director of the Smithsonian, who arrived during the evening from an International Geophysical Year conference in Washington, said of the Soviet satellite, "It is a great achievement on the Russians' part, and I commend them for it. We won the first round with the H-bomb; they won the second with the space satellite...
...only commend the forthrightness and variety of opinion expressed, but the value of membership in organizations devoted more to intra-club power struggles than to working to implement the ideals of a party can only be questioned...
Since there are no rules by which we can say that an analogy is one of genius instead of madness, I cannot say categorically that her vision is a phantasy of no essential importance. I can only suggest that for me it has nothing to commend itself over the old truisms except its novelty...
...would have been easier for Dulles to obtain these funds, had he not revealed that $250,000, allotted last year, has not been spent. The appropriation had been designed to pay for a new pass-port-making machine which, unfortunately, has not yet been invented. We commend the Secretary for his candor in revealing the surplus and for his vision in providing opportunities for budding inventors. As it stands now, however, the pass-ports will probably just have to be turned out the old way, so that our diplomats can have their recreation and the Suez can have its users...