Word: commend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . My reason for writing this letter is to commend you on the publishing of medical subjects that should be of interest to everyone, and to answer a letter written by Mrs. H. S. Lanpher of Providence, R. I., and published in TIME, March 1, objecting to the publishing oi medical topics...
...will not deny that my first meeting with the German Chancellor stirred mingled feelings within me. ... It was my duty to meet him, however . . . [and] at Locarno we spoke 'European.' It is a new language which all the world must learn! I commend it to you for study, my friends?even if it is not yet certain that the Germans understood it. ... I do not pretend that the Locarno agreement realized absolute security for France. If some one asks me whether this agreement dispenses with measures of security my answer is 'No, it does...
...feature article, "The Publishing Business as a Career", by Lyman Beecher Stowe '04, carries obvious interest and is appealing in style. "The Valley of Dry Bones", by J. H. Kaye, is a readable essay on the study of history at college, maturely considered, and blessed with sufficient indignation to commend it to those whose literary palate is pleasantly titivated by the sauce of anger. "College or Knowledge", by C. C. Abbott, pumps at a well never dry, and draws from it several bucketfuls of good sense...
...realize that the sentence here quoted from the report of the Athletic Committee is the product of a state of mind which seems to be in vogue just not. Even the newspapers commend it. For instance, the New York Times says in approval: 'This certainly is a movement in the right direction.' But as a matter of fact...
...impossible to commend this presentation of "Hedda Gabler" as anything that will meet with much appreciation, but it is possible to commend the daring and skill of a stock company which will try Ibsen and get away passably with...