Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as many jokes as the Toonerville Trolley. In a current vaudeville skit, the spurned lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
...pince-nezed Professor William E. Knickerbocker, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, had been in hot water with students for the last four years. He had been accused of anti-Semitic remarks, and of refusing to recommend certain instructors for promotion because they were Jewish. The other teacher, Economics Instructor William C. Davis, had segregated Negroes and whites in the dormitory he supervised. The college had made a full investigation, cleared Knickerbocker, removed Davis from his dormitory job, and declared the matter closed. Last year New York's City Council disagreed: it said Knickerbocker should be fired. That...
...group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian, and being anti-Communist does not automatically mean they are pro-war." Snapped Playwright Lillian Hellman: "I would recommend, Mr. Cousins, that when you talk about your hosts at dinner, wait until you have gone home...
...recommend to the Administration that scholarship stipends be raised and funds allocated so that no student be forced to leave College through the tuition rise alone...
...believe that an instructor should use course time to propagandize for any political group (2.) I believe it an academic abuse of the first magnitude to make disparaging references to a local public official and to recommend the programme of a political group without affording opportunity for those who disagree with such a reference and the programme recommended to retort immediately before the audience to which the reference was made and the program recommended. Any student who demanded the right to harangue the group would, of course, been out of order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed...