Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, it jabbed some good spiny cactus into the aspidistra drama of the English stage; on the other hand, it clangingly echoed a new generation's call to disorder in English life. And it had something more than the Zeitgeist or England's general theatrical anemia to recommend it; it had a man who could really write...
...major piece of research and writing in their senior year. Our tutorial staff is sufficiently large to accommodate all of our concentrators with tutors, even those seniors who are not permitted to submit a thesis. Each spring, of course, we do as you recommend we do: we take a count before admitting new students to the field. Let that student who has no tutor throw the first stone...
Sorry for giving what they admitted was a "loaded" exam and seeing that many concentrators with honor grades could no longer go out for honors and write theses, the tutors pulled a complete about face. They promised to recommend each concentrator, who failed, for a senior-year course reduction, in which he or she could write a protothesis--a thesis-length term paper. This move did not greatly ease the tutor shortage...
There is always the possibility of reducing demand, rather than limiting it however. The Development Company suggested a clearing house to encourage and control car pools, and recommend that the University provide better facilities for bicycles and motor scooters...
Early in World War II the Shah of Iran wrote to his friend Franklin Roosevelt and asked him to recommend a composer who could set Walter Camp's "Daily Dozen" physical exercises to Persian rhythms for use by the Iranian army. The U.S. State Department knew just the man: Composer Henry Cowell, then doing a stint as music editor of OWI. Cowell polished off the job in a few days, saw thousands of his records pressed and shipped off to Iran to ease the deep, daily kneebends practiced by the Shah's sturdy troops...