Word: commendation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supernal fecundity to our labors and good works. . . . These, venerable brethren and beloved children, are the wishes, these the hopes which we, present among you not only in the person of our Legate, but also in a way by that paternal love which transcends and conquers distance and space, commend in suppliant prayer to the most sacred heart of Jesus...
...season finds these huge holdings reduced to approximately 3,500,000 bales. . . . Not having been slow to criticize Government entrance into the cotton market, it is a pleasure now to commend the wisdom of decision and the skill of execution in liquidation of Government cotton holdings...
...Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...
...talent of Mr. Bontemps is considerable. He has the authentic skill of the novelist in choosing a theme likely to interest readers, in telling a story not in propria persona but through the words and actions of characters; in fact he has every gift to commend him to the reader's respect except greatness. The lack of that quality in Mr. Bontemps is serious, for he has chosen for the motif of his novel the events of a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800, and such a theme requires greatness. It is beside the point that greatness is still...
...wish to commend you on your unbiased, complete and interesting biographical article on "Average American" Mark Sullivan (TIME...