Word: laude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolff, Harvard '29, magna cum laud in anthropology, set up his school in Beck Hall in 1930, but soon had to move to bigger quarters. Large and generally unshaven, he shouts his lectures, throws erassers at sleepy students tells stories about Peter his pet champanzee and despite official disapproval--gets most of Harvard's patronage...
...example of unceasing service set by him and by our gracious Queen Mary; for strength and steadfastness bestowed on him and for the love and loyalty borne to him by a great family of peoples and in all parts of the world, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name...
...Senator to appear before a committee to laud a tycoon-witness was sufficiently impressive. For a group of inquisitors virtually to apologize for ever having thought anything ill of a tycoon-witness was even rarer. When Senator Byrnes finished speaking, Senator Nye, who chairmans the Munitions Committee, hastily interposed...
...CRIMSON, informing us of the gravity of the situation and reminding us that our reputations are at stake, proceeds to laud the spirit of the questionnaire, and then as usual, to contradict itself Warning us all of the danger of publicity, the CRIMSON sensationalizes the questionnaire on its front page, so the every dirty tabloid in Boston is sure to have the story before the Friday CRIMSON has gone to press. And then in the leading editorial, we read that the resists of the questionnaire "would be of importance to any civilized society. It is of particular importance...
Others (free thinkers--not necessarily blind with bigotry) laud it with commendable vehemence...