Word: commendability
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...laughable. The senator who proposes it intends it to bring about the end of "asinine laws", aiming specifically at the repeal of the anti-cigarette law now in force in the state in the not unreasonable hope of showing the foolishness of all such legislation. and we can commend the senator's astuteness in fighting comedy with ridicule. His method might be profitably used in preserving the rationality of law in Nebraska and Minnesota and elsewhere. But it is unfortunate that satire is needed to preserve sanity in legislation. At times when crime is unusually persistent, it will not help...
...Does any one conscientiously oppose a Radcliffe literary publication. The time has come and passed for such to speak; she must now and forever after hold her peace. Does any one conscientiously desire such an institution? Most certainly; the suggestion is like Sylvia: "All the swains commend...
...capture in prose the "inenubliable spirit" of a great institution like Harvard, to present its spiritual and physical aspects of another date. To any one who would learn the technique, as well as to any one who would find the perspective of the Harvard he knows today, I may commend Mr. Mayo's charming essay...
...subscribed for TIME under your special offer and commend its time saving policy...
...Nation has a policy of commending the novel and the hold. And the present case seems in some ways an excellent one to commend. For these students who are attempting by intelligent fraterization to remedy inferiority complexes and fueds of the recila variety to do away with fear and folly are on the right track. Yet they must not be too sure how well they can travel that track until they have studied the situation and realized most keenly that others before them have in fearing to attempt this been less cowardly than discrete. If they can do this then...