Word: lax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hour exams are additionally hard to locate since the University Printing Office is sometimes lax in sending all copies over to the library. But this is probably because Widener was never insistent. It goes back to the more basic reason, that keeping track of exams was never taken as a serious thing in the library. Whether old exams should be available at all is open to question. But since the library is doing this service, it ought to do it more efficiently...
...their booking arm has tightened its hold, the Shuberts' producing arm has become almost completely lax. This year they have produced only one show. They prefer-and are usually able-to fill their theaters with hits by other producers, turn out their own shows only when there are not enough to go around. Now, with theaters scarce, they get rentals of 35% of gross receipts, and up. With all their houses occupied by hits or near-misses, Shubert theaters are taking in money at the rate of $60 million a year...
...undoubtedly mere coincidence that Harvard came out on the short end of these myopic lapses, but nevertheless such events have the worst possible effect on amateur athletics. It was lax officiating that led to the unpleasant and bloody Moher incident in the Harvard-Yale hockey game in February, and there is still a good deal of bad feeling about some of the calls in the Yale football game last year...
...fast-moving telecamera, the balloting, the demonstrations, the tub-thumping speeches and sweating caucuses looked bigger and more exciting than they actually were. It was the delegates who gave the convention most of its strawberry festival flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide...
...this doesn't please you there is always the testimony of Rupert Hughes who pointed the red, red finger at the producers. He contends that "They are the people who hire and fire. I think they have been unjustifiably lax. They have paid from two to five thousand dollars a week to men whom they know to be brilliant. Many Communists are very, very brilliant...