Word: vouched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this summer when Professor Frankfurter was suggested as a possibility for the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench, Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law School, said of him, "Professor Frankfurter's very great abilities are to well and too widely known to make it needful for anyone to vouch for them. His abilities and his acknowledged placed as one of the leaders in thought among lawyers and law teachers speak for themselves." At the same time, he was termed as one of ablest and most profound members of the legal profession in the country by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, retired associate...
...Manhattan Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, who, 68, is just twice as old as Dr. Rhoads, demonstrated how stanch a friend he is to every member of his staff. They had worked together for two years on the in fantile paralysis problem, and Dr. Flexner could vouch for the validity of the explanation which Dr. Rhoads last week sent to Governor Beverley: "Regret very much that fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as parody on supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken...
...cotton night shirt, between cotton sheets, Governor Long signed a cotton bill designed to outlaw the nation's greatest cash crop next year. After cameramen had recorded the scene, Governor Long announced to the Press: "If the other cotton-growing States will follow Louisiana's lead, I will personally vouch for 20^ cotton. It's all right to call on Hercules but we must put our shoulders to the wheel ourselves...
Being of the class of 1924 of the Phillips Exeter Academy, I can vouch for TIME and "lead shots," for while at the Academy I had many a weighty "lead shot" at the soda fountains of Exeter. As far as I remember they are made up of one-quarter glass malted milk, one-quarter glass sweet chocolate syrup, 1 scoop chocolate ice cream, with the remainder of the glass filled with heaviest of cream and the whole mixed to the consistency of marshmallow paste. Price...
...sign to show that in New Hampshire he makes men." In the cool of many mornings after the sophistry of this remark becomes all too plain, but the kernel of truth that inspired it still remains. The Vagabond has just been up in the "lofty state" and will vouch for the truth. Most unfortunately he was called away suddenly to tutor a man in History 28 for an examination today, or he would have prolonged his stay indefinitely--until Quebec. The tutoring, by the way, has not been much of a success. The Vagabond knows just exactly as much...