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Word: lauds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever history will have to say about the policies of President Roosevelt, it will not laud him for being especially well versed in the art of appointing. With Black as the most glaring example, the President has picked officials, advisors, and cabinet men who have in certain cases lacked ability and in other cases been about as poor as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "POWERS AND SPIRIT" | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

Born in 1605 in Towcester, England, Shepard received his A. B. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and became an ordained deacon, later priest. As an occasional lecturer on religious matters he was in 1630 silenced for non-conformity by Laud, the Bishop of London. He was not allowed to speak publicly henceforth in England because of the example set by Laud, and so in 1634 he set sail for Boston, but was driven back by a storm and remained in hiding in Kingland until the next year, when he sailed again, reaching his destination October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial is Erected for Pastor Who Was Influential in Founding Harvard | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...have numerous dogs and one of them is called Ernest, for the Hemingway whom you so laud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

From the earliest days, when Archbishop Laud threatened the very existence of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there have been obstacles in the path of Harvard's progress. Whenever possible, the College has adapted itself to the changing conditions of national life and so guided its development that there have always been new fields ahead in which it might play the role, as Mr. Conant phrases it, of "innovator and pacemaker." But when the conditions have been such that they menaced Harvard's existence in any form, the College has not been too proud to fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "INNOVATOR AND PACEMAKER" | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

...hrer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer's Proclamation. Nazis laud the Proclamation as the coming year's party program, indicating in vague generalities the German course in foreign, internal affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Million Heils | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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