Word: commend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your action in the matter has the unqualified approval of the Department, and I wish to commend you for the interest which you have shown in this important movement for preparedness...
...commend the camps to the authorities and students of the universities and colleges of the country. We believe that the training and instruction which students attending receive not only emphasize the dangers and losses of wars lightly and unpreparedly entered into but we also believe that the training given is excellent and a great benefit, mental and physical, to the students attending...
...against the marriage do convenance. But its hysterical sentence structure and three of impending disaster show lack of historical perspective: he might have seen the same force at work at "Le Preciousness Ridicules" or in the "Merry Wives of Windsor." In verse, too, it is less easy to commend his quest of esoteric effects. The odd meter of "A Lover of Boston" exhibits as tenuous a sense of beauty as his lover's defence of Corey Hill sunsets as a mate for Italian evenings. By contrast in "Bhakata-Yoga" the questionably sensuous imagery veils and almost nullifies the philosophi conception...
...short time spent in the realms of Orpheus prior to entering the examination room is an effective antidote for mental flurries and uneasiness. We heartily commend Dr. Davison's recitals to all undergraduates...
Although the Information Bureau has been run for some years, this is the first year that the Bureau has been run by the Phillips Brooks House Association. The constituent societies all cooperated and with their valuable assistance the Bureau was so successful that the scheme will undoubtedly commend itself to the incoming Cabinet...