Word: recommending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short, plump, bespectacled Instructor Weller brooded over his misfortune. One morning last week he dismissed his class, stepped into the office of his immediate superior, Chairman Harry Kurz of the Department of Romance Languages. Instructor Weller knew that last month Dr. Kurz had failed to recommend him for reappointment. At his baldish. heavy-featured superior John Weller glared, pulled a revolver, shouted: "I'm going to kill you!" Dr. Kurz leaped up, ran from his office. Instructor Weller fired at him, missed. When Dr. Kurz slipped in the corridor, Instructor Weller stood over him, fired again...
...librarian, although we can't imagine why, concocted a blurb on bananas--and the return mail brought a congratulatory note (with prize). We should like to recommend to this same quintet that they now look to the University's honor in the "Blotto" contest, sponsored by a local newspaper. Fair Harvard...
Your article pictured Mr. Hoan as the highly educated savior of our city; whereas Mr. Shinners is a rough-and-tumble uneducated person who has nothing to recommend him except his hulk. Apparently some seventy or eighty thousand residents of Milwaukee think otherwise It must be a great source of satisfaction to you and to Mayor Hoan that after 20 years of service he was only able to be elected by the skin of his teeth...
...College of Liberal Arts for Women. Lank, sharp-faced, 35, Merle Odgers is married, lives with his wife and daughter in suburban Upper Darby. An ardent classicist, he may circumvent one of the last of Founder Girard's barriers: "I do not forbid, but I do not recommend the Greek and Latin languages...
...several gallons of gypsy wine, absorbed inadvertently while he was bottling the liquid by a siphoning process. Incidentally, this bottling scene ranks as possibly the funniest we've yet encountered; and for an effective drug to ease you back to work after the pleasures of vacation, we can recommend nothing better...