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Word: recommendable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal solution of her problems has long been considered a happy notion by exuberant students who throw their weight around, restrained only by the admonitory clucking of Yard cops. But in playing it cozy by failing to publicize the extent and frequency of the Parkhurst thefts, and recommend workable counter-steps, the University may well have cut off student noses to save itself face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pride and Pragmatism | 1/15/1947 | See Source »

...President about to address a new Congress has a threefold problem: he must be firm but not insulting, must recommend without demanding, must be conciliatory but not abject-in short, he must present the best illustration possible of how the executive and legislative departments should work together in a democracy. When the President is of one party and the Congress of another, the problem is intensified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Cheers, No Jeers | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, chairman of the Council group which has labored for the past two months to produce the document, said last night that his committee would recommend that the vote for ratification by the student body be held in the first week of the spring term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Constitution Up for Council's Sanction Tonight | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

When the hearing was over, Bilbo, his five lawyers, the committee, and particularly Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, committee chairman and Bilbo buddy, seemed well satisfied. The committee returned to Washington to write a report. Few expected that it would recommend unseating the Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Present Laughter | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Convention delegate Albert Butt last week rose and asked if they had the power to recommend that Newfoundland join the U.S. Replied the convention's British-appointed constitutional expert, Oxford don K. C. Wheare: "Yes . . . but [you] will have to get the consent of the U.S. Government and of course . . . the consent of the United Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Join the U.S.? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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