Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Commission, to recommend a change in rate, must conduct a long investigation into foreign production cost. When the inquiry is over, the need for the change has generally passed, or increased beyond the Commission's measurement. The new bill proposes that the Commission accelerate its work by studying only the "condition of competition" in the domestic market and making its recommendations thereon...
Especially does the Vagabond wish to recommend to those who are interested in the growth of socio-political thought a lecture which is to be given today at 10 o'clock in Emerson M by Mr. Arthur Baker Lewis the District Secretary of the Socialist Party. True the Vagabond does not know exactly what Mr. Lewis will speak about, but he can hazzard a guess and so probably can most of his readers. As for other lectures, he would mention the following...
...feature of the contest which will recommend itself at once to any group of undergraduates is the sturdy atmosphere of rugged amateurism. Absolutely no mention of financial award to the winner has been mentioned in the official announcements and one may as well assume that the participants will engage merely out of love for free competition and the clean hard joy of listening to Helen Kane. Captious persons may always point to the promoters of such schemes as the real profiteers, but it is to be hoped that no such stigma should be attached to a firm which has done...
...Lowes himself, will admit. That this state of things is comic and fantastic, as well as probably futile, Septimus Cromarty does well to point out, but to indulge in witless and banal personalities at the expense of a distinguished and wholly charming instructor is a procedure which will not recommend itself to the judicious...
...long been axiomatic that for fatuous stupidity the Advocate is a rare lit'ry nonesuch, but for sour and futile impertinence the current issue hasn't even a competitor. There seems to be such an effluvium of decomposition about its pages as to recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...