Word: commend
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...seniors who have gained insight and information from The Harvard Crimson for the past four years, we would like to commend you on the consistency of your reporting, especially the investigative reporting. We are constantly amazed at some of the findings that The Crimson so diligently and faithfully reports. Especially exciting is the daily column known as "Corrections...
That seems hyperbolic; Ford's plan has much to commend it. Inheritance taxes now place a disproportionate hardship on small estates, partly because it is often hard to appraise the true value of small farms and businesses. Another reason: the tax schedule is not very progressive. The current average effective rate on a $300,000 estate is about 10%; the effective rate on a $1 million estate is less than double that-about...
...from it in the first place. Speaking personally, my semester at Harvard was both enjoyable and satisfying, but I came here with my eyes open, not expecting immortal truths and revelations to fall into my lap every time I shook the academic tree. It is an attitude I heartily commend to all incoming freshmen for, as a sage old British friend once told me, "The only place one is likely to find the Philosopher's Stone is in the gallbladder of a bilious pedant." What I sought during my stay at Harvard was not Veritas (how many of us would...
...Hundreds of letters and telegrams and countless telephone calls have rolled over him. Job offers have piled up−invitations to lecture, to teach, to write. Then last week came a moment of special satisfaction for Schlesinger, who at times had walked a lonely path. The Senate voted to commend him "for his excellence in office, his intellectual honesty and personal integrity, and for his Senate, such language is quite courage and independence." Even in the unusual...
...commend The Crimson for its excellent November 12 editorial reminding the Harvard community that the struggle to gain fair representation for agricultural workers is not over. The United Farm Workers' boycott of non-UFW iceberg lettuce and table grapes and Gallo wines will indeed continue until contracts are signed...