Word: commendation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inniability of French cabinets is a constant wonder. So there is considerable worry on the part of some people who were put a case by the Peace of Locarno when they find the resilient M. Calleux bouncing forth from the chair of destiny. Yet to them one can only commend remembrance of the many times that French cabinets have been made and remade since the beginning of Post War ministries. In fact to the careful observer, and an American should be that, nothing more, it seems that changing cabinets is as much a French custom as changing style. A critical...
...Right Reverend Doctor Slattery and his committee, all mere men, seem to have approached their task of revision with prayer and fasting. They seem to have sensed the truth of the old Italian proverb: "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to the Lord." In asking that the word obey be removed from the marriage service they explain that their purpose is to put the Church in touch with present day life, and then they naively add: "We are thus trying to make the service conform to the truth...
...Paris, Futurist composers have written parts for new instruments, equipped their orchestras with droners, groaners, gobblers, ululators, strideurs, éclateurs, bourdonneurs, glouglouteurs, hululeurs. Critics commend the crepiteur for the clarity of his saccades...
...sound upon opaque materials, the shape of horns for acoustic instruments, the assembling of receptive membranes and marine microphones, as well as the first oscillographs of propellor vibrations. He is also responsible for an important study of musical acoustics, the significance of which led the French government to commend him and recommend his pursuance of the subject...
...said that once a fly lit upon the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Crawling across one of the seamlike connections, he flew away to tell the other flies that he had discovered a terrible defect in this, the greatest work of Sir Christopher Wren. I commend this story to General Dawes...