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Word: recommendations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play. Fancy fell back on reincarnation as a basis for farce, and told of a sculptress and an art critic who-after all sorts of meetings and matings, B.C. and A.D.-finally meet and marry in 1952. The play, which promptly closed, had only some scattered Kaufman wit to recommend it. A banal farce, it made the even worse mistake of being an altogether brassy fantasy that wisecracked wide open, hours before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 28, 1952 | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...slate for the bi-annual meeting will be such topics as whether or not to recommend a re-chartering of the Radcliffe News, whether or not to replace freshman officers with a freshman class committee, and how to improve the present system of raising money in charity drives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Announces '52 Cedar Hill Conference | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

...general nuisance." On the contrary, they provide pleasant diffused light. 2) do not irritate the eyes: a fluorescent tube has a luminance of approximately 1 candle/cm 2, whereas a frosted bulb has a luminance of about 5 c/cm 2. To use a favorite American expression, doctors recommend that the eyes should not be subjected to a luminance of more than 2 c/cm. 2. 3) do not hum unless the ballast is defective. 4) do not flicker. But even if fluorescent lights had all those defects, I do not see how they could possibly make anyone wear bifocals. A certain number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Double Dissenter | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

...court now must find out if and when Kelly actually received $1,000 from Derham. It must also show that Derham actually gave the money as a bribe. And if these two possibilities do not prove true, then it can recommend that Cenedella be indicted for perjury. No matter which way the case turns, someone is going to be caught...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Brass Tacks | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

...picture depicts "the mob that defied the Kefauver Committee" and reveals the shocking truth about "those sixteen unsolved murders." This is hogwash in the best ad-man tradition; the film states that any relation to real persons or places is purely coincidental. But "The Mob" still has plenty to recommend it in Crawford's excellent acting, its snappy dialogue in the best Raymond Chandler style, and the constant suspense of characters in double roles. After an hour or so of general mayhem in alleys, bars, cheap hotels, and black sedans, the Law finally closes in with the aid of several...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

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