Word: recommendable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armament factories. Many an applicant wanted to know how much he would be paid while studying (answer: nothing). Many another, eager to serve Uncle Sam, had given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were not mechanics by trade, they were handy around the house. Garment workers mistakenly enrolled for a course in pattern cutting, learned that it dealt with cutting machine parts, not underwear. Some applicants arrived on the run to take "machine-gun practice," found that...
Also for the first time, the new graduates will be inducted into the Alumni Association as part of the Association meeting. President Conant will recommend as candidates for admission all those who have received degrees at the morning graduation exercises; as President of the Alumni Association, Dr. Cutler will formally accept the new graduates as members...
...first things the club took up in its official capacity was the question of securing representation on the Board of Overseers, which was then limited to residents of the state of Massachusetts. A resolution was passed proposing that the "Club suggest to its members and electors generally to recommend the Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows and no other person" to the standing committee of the alumni association which had charge of the nomination and election of Overseers. Bellows was eventually elected at the commencement...
...Finally, as to the criteria of promotion, the Committee does not feel that it would be wise to recommend positively that excellence as a tutor be a main qualification for promotion to a Faculty instructorship and permanent tonure. But the Committee does recommend that the proposal be given serious consideration; it is certainly the most important of the proposals for increasing the effectiveness of tutorial instruction...
...recorded with more accuracy than sales figures alone could provide. Dr. George ("Percentage") Gallup is sending out the book as subject for one of the Gallup polls. A selected cross section of readers will report to Dr. Gallup on such questions as what they like, dislike, and would recommend about Kings Row, how it compares in their esteem with such stemwinders as Gone With the Wind...