Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the criminal, still, if 'either a man or a woman were properly convicted under our present laws, I should have no hesitation about imposing the death sentence. In this case, where I did pronounce such a sentence, I had no alternative, for the jury did not recommend clemency...
...foreign films are still coming to Boston. Some are intended for the French-speaking and German-speaking population of Boston, while others transcend the language of their origin and recommend themselves to any intelligent audience. Such a film is "Das Lied vom Leben," with which the Fine Arts Theatre is relieving that vacation surfeit of Hollywood happy-endings and Grand Rapids repartee...
Perhaps it is better merely to recommend "Das Lied vom Leben" with enthusiasm, and to assure everyone that ignorance of German is no reason to stay away...
...plans to rush it through in one day, to wear the Senate out by sitting until midnight, were balked by Senator Johnson who thundered: "'Haste, haste, haste!', they say. I will tell you why-they know that the international committee meeting at Basle is going to recommend a two-year extension, and they want this out of the way first. " Senator Johnson, hero of that session, blocked an early vote by moving recess, spoke for an hour, planned to orate more next...
...Flexner put Dr. Park's statement aside as merely representing an opinion. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State commissioner of health, sensing a controversy, protected himself thus: "In the absence of any better known method of combating infantile paralysis, the New York State Department of Health will continue to recommend the use of human serum unless its usefulness should be completely disproved...