Word: recommendable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whimsical, perverse, doubtful Vag has been the wry, yet sometimes sentimental, humorist of the editorial page since the end of 1926. At first, "The Student Vagabond" embodied an anonymous impersonal editor who would recommend certain lectures for possible browsers to audit. Eventually and inevitably, however, Vag's name stirred editorial imagination, and two years after his creation, he was becoming a composite of the lackadaisical, as well as the wise, Harvard...
...ambiguous to strive for more children from those families of good mental and physical health, and of good principles, and at the same time seek to curb those from irresponsible families who neglect their children? Or would TIME recommend that morons, sex perverts, and the like be given a bonus to bring more children into the world? I think...
...Navy believed that it was fighting for its life. The President was all ready to recommend unification of command. Congressmen had grown bored with the arguments. When earnest Assistant Secretary of the Navy H. Struve Hensel appeared before the Senate Military Affairs Committee last week, only two committeemen were on hand. One of them explained without apology: "We heard Mr. Hensel for two hours before...
Delay, apparently, would be the Navy's final tactic. Forrestal has asked that the whole thing be "elevated" to a presidential commission. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Struve Hensel pleaded: "We see no reason for frantic rush." The Navy will recommend that the whole matter be given for final adjudication to an umpire committee. Presumably the Navy would accept its decision. Presumably it will also accept the decision of Congress, if one is made without calling in a new umpire...
...lonesome. We've wanted to come home. But . . . we've always taken it for granted someone would take our place. . . . We are surprised to hear it seriously argued that we've always been able to train an army after we are attacked . . . and wouldn't . . . recommend telling it to the boys who were on Wake or Bataan...