Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the German Foreign Exchange Control Bureau, which is supposed to see that no traveler leaves the Fatherland with more than 200 marks ($65), suddenly tightened up this lax regulation* last week with respect exclusively to steamship tickets. Intending travelers, both German and foreign, were told that they might spend as much as they liked on German steamship tickets, but must get a special permit ("which will only be issued for very good reasons") from the Bureau if they wished to spend more than 200 marks booking passage on a foreign ship. Since no trans-Atlantic passage can be bought...
...selective system need not be mutually exclusive, for inflexible standards might be applied and a personal evaluation made of the survivors. As the sole system in use, selective admission must lower standards, and the decline must be reflected in the secondary schools whose graduation requirements are already painfully lax. The present college courses which provide a wearying knowledge of elementary dates, elementary syntax, and even more elementary English composition are the result of that laxity, and would have to be even more extensively invoked...
...will have Putnam as center and Hodder and Captain Alexander Fletcher of Yale as wings. Chase will be the pivot of the second forward line, supported by Baldwin and Paul Curtis of Yale, and in the third line Pell and Moseley will be in the wing positions and John Lax of Boston University at center...
...biggest life insurance failure last year. Eight of the nine others were either Illinois companies or their subsidiaries. Tenth was a small Negro company in Washington. Intensely jealous of their good name, insurance men throughout the land have roundly flayed Illinois' insurance laws in general, their lax enforcement in particular...
...ashore in protest at the Government's pay cuts. Australian officers worried. Just so did the British naval mutiny at Invergordon start last year (TIME. Sept. 28, 1931), an affair that became more serious than British papers have yet admitted, and according to British standards, Australian discipline is notoriously lax.* Apparently Australian tempers are better. After threatening the Government the men returned to quarters, the fleet sailed for training at Jervis Bay. Minister of Defense Sir George Pierce announced that the sailors' pay cuts would be "eased...