Word: condemns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly it is unfair to condemn the course hastily as of little or no value, for students uniformly testify that some of the light seeps through. But they are also quite uniform in their wistful comments on what might have been. Fortunately the problem of the confused social scientist grappling with a technical subject is not new. The Report on General Education clearly recognized it, and brought about the highly satisfactory reforms of the three Natural Science courses...
...cheerful. But the people are as chipper as chipmunks. A woman with the fine, warm features of an old coin stopped to say: "This was a beautiful city." A friendly little fellow, quietly steeping himself in vodka at the hotel bar, came over to condemn Truman and then explained that tonight he was going to get only "culturally" drunk, that is to say, not stinkingly so. Another man saw us walking along the street by the theater, and because we were dressed differently from Stalingradites, took us for the orchestra of a variety show that was playing at the theater...
Through the pages of the April issue of "Radditudes" parade what is probably the most homicidal and sexually maladjusted collection of characters ever to appear in a girl's college magazine. In itself, this fact does not condemn "Radditudes." A gang of misanthropes, murderers, and masochists, handled properly, can make excellent reading. For the most part, however, the stories in "Radditudes" offer neither narrative, nor clean-out character studies, nor reasonably penetrable allegery, but substitute slightly pretentious, somewhat mystifying, and extremely bloody vignettes...
Viewing action being taken throughout the country by teachers groups, the Cambridge local felt that it could no longer endorse a ruling that restricted the bargaining power of teachers unions. Despite the constitutional clause, the AF to T governing committee did not condemn participation of some of its locals in recent strikes in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Buffalo, New York...
...many Americans who don't know what they are talking about, cricket is a British eccentricity hardly less pansy than croquet. Americans condemn the game because it moves too leisurely, has too much ritualistic etiquette, and the players actually knock off for tea at 4 o'clock. One ex-G.I. who had seen a game summed up: "Believe me, in New York we'd have thrown pop bottles just to wake things...