Word: encomiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone called the Senate "the most remarkable of all the inventions of modern politics." Most Americans-excepting Senators-were then, and would be now, astonished at such an encomium. The Senate was formed chiefly because the smaller states feared that they would be outvoted and overwhelmed if the only legislative body was apportioned by population alone. To reassure them, the framers of the Constitution agreed to add a second House, in which each state, regardless of size, should have two delegates who should be selected by the state legislatures as "ambassadors" of their states...
...sang Poetess Marianne Moore in her 1955 encomium to the Brooklyn...
...Senate Judiciary Committee members, who then approved President Johnson's nominee for the $30,000-a-year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...
...Pitts, president of all-Negro Miles College, Birmingham (TIME. Nov. g)-LL.D. As one who struggled long and hard to gain an education, and who is now struggling equally hard to bring the benefits of education to those who need it most, you have indeed earned Chaucer's encomium: "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche...
...price of dinner: $2.50) and free breakfast with champagne, more than 1,200 top-drawer Britons have joined the club, which Tim Holland modestly calls a "gold mine." Last week, after his casino had been running only ten days. Crocky's new master had already earned the Biblical encomium pinned on Fishmonger Crockford in the 19th century: "He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he. hath sent empty away...