Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primary among the criticisms of present conditions is that an over-lax system of admissions results in wholesale slashing of the enrollment after the first year. At present many men drift into law-school upon graduation without definite purpose. They continue to drift through the first year and are dropped immediately following their final examinations. Such a system clogs the normal functions of a post-graduate academy and is obviously wrong. Stiffer entrance requirements, such as are in force at Yale, would eliminate the idle and the unfit, and would increase the effectiveness of both faculty and student body...
Meantime in Duquesne, another case of lax guardianship presented itself to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's attention. Martin Sullivan, a 70-year-old Duquesne policeman who rouged his cheeks, penciled his eyebrows, dyed his hair and capped a bald spot with a toupee held on by a string under his chin, always liked to have little girls accompany him on his beat, carrying his nightstick. Four years ago he married one of them, aged 15. She lately deserted him. Last week in Duquesne he was taken to court on a charge of having raped another girl, aged...
...budget, he declared that any money used for that purpose should properly come out of relief funds. Congressional pain at the veto was considerably alleviated when a few days later he allocated $30,000,000 from relief funds for crop loans. Further to avoid charges of lax spending, the President privately passed word to his friends, Senator Wagner who has a $200,000,000 housing project and Senator Norris who has a $100,000,000 yearly electric power plan, that their money demands must be reduced...
Senate Investigator Charles Heave Dolan: The Air Bureau economized to a hazardous extent, "violated regulations 100% in some districts," was lax in reporting forced landings, blamed more than 80% of crashes on weather or plane personnel. U. S. airlines, though deeply in the red as a whole, still spend great sums on new safety equipment, are chiefly responsible for making U. S. air transport five times safer now than...
Because the Dramatic Club had been rather lax about enforcing Administrative Board rules in previous cases, the Board followed the precedent of the Lampoon reorganization after the Parody number last May and reached an understanding with the Club that there would be a reorganization before the Spring production...