Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly, such as there is in Spanish 8. But with perseverance a student will learn to talk. Courses 4 and 5, two connecting half-courses, were criticized because the sections are too big, some men never get any practice, and the poor student stays poor, Moreover Mercier is too lax in correcting pronunciation...
...interstate business. SEC proposed the idea to protect investors from a number of abuses it has unearthed in various corporate reorganizations and to counteract a general laxity of corporate law in certain States. Alternate proposal: use of taxing power to make more difficult incorporations under the statutes of these lax States...
...cutting the communication line between Madrid and the sea. Theoretically responsible for this Teruel east front is the Leftist city of Barcelona, second largest in Spain, but Barcelona has been so busy with its bloody squabbles between Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and Left Republicans that it has been disgracefully lax at the front for almost a year...
Jazz, blowsiest of the arts, has been disgracefully lax about keeping her barrelhouse in order. The master recordings of hundreds of notable numbers, played by inspired but informal groups of musicians in obscure studios, have been lost or destroyed. Copies of records made in Swing's golden age, the 19203, by bands like the Wolverines, Friars Society Orchestra and New Orleans Rhythm Kings, are therefore as rare as Gutenbergs and, to lovers of America's native music, as valuable...
...H.A.A. has never been lax in bidding for the backing of the sports-minded student. Fairness in relationships between officers and players forms the characteristic par excellence of Harvard sports. The powers that be have willingly opened the doors of administration to all who wanted to be student managers. But the Quincy Street bureaucracy has never fully realized the importance of giving the ordinary student a share in Harvard athletics...