Word: recommendable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social reform may soon meet in Parliament. Up in the House of Commons was a Catering Bill introduced by hornyhanded Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. A restaurant worker before he became a dock worker, Bevin asked for a commission to investigate the catering business from top to bottom, then recommend any necessary reforms...
...while this classical theft goes on and on and librarians mutter occultly, button, button, who's got the button, several janitors recommend that men keep their doors locked when they leave their rooms, and play their Schubert in a dark closet...
Acting upon a suggestion of Dean Hanford, the Undergraduate Athletic Council named three representatives to recommend a plan for intercollegiate and intramural athletics during the spring term...
...without causing a national uprising. Barring any new, sensational proof of Senator Bridges' charges, his record is remarkably clean for one who has been a political boss-local (The Bronx) and national-for 22 years. Ed Flynn's unswerving loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt might recommend him as a personal envoy. But of the talents necessary for a representative of the U.S. people, Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News said: "He is not a diplomat. He has had no foreign experience. He has had no military experience. He has no particular familiarity with Australia or with Pacific problems...
...vulgarity. Too often, when he intends to insult the reader's stupidity, he insults his intelligence instead. But Author Wylie's book might be of far greater importance than its own intrinsic worth if readers in any appreciable numbers would act seriously on his old and central recommendation-"know thyself"-as well as on a thing he fails to recommend-the study of those quieter, subtler, maturer diagnosticians who are casing the same field...