Word: lax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduating class took advantage of the opportunity for three-year graduation under an accelerated program. Faculty investigation, however, discovered lax standards and sloppy study practices in speeding up the award of a degree. Standards were stiffened and requirements lengthened, and the number of applicants for the program diminished immediately...
Otherwise, the main problem confronting the team is that of taking enough shots at the opponents' goal. Even in the Tufts game the shot production was notably lax, as it has been all season...
...read in your April 22 issue of the Protestant invasion of Catholic Italy, I wondered why they were there at all. If they are really sincere about spreading Christianity (their form), why don't they descend on Sweden? Now there is a country that probably has the most lax moral standards of any country in the world and a country that is almost exclusively Protestant. But I have an idea that the Swedish people wouldn't take kindly to a swarm of missionaries...
...villains in a plot against your patients," a crusading Boston surgeon told a gathering of colleagues in Washington last week. Continued Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter: "Because of your negligence, 90% of the nation's hospitals are a menace to health. You should clean up the operating rooms . . . Lax operation of a hospital assures maximal multiplication of pathogenic monsters [i.e., germs]. The result is a carefully managed system that inoculates patients with virulent bacteria along with enough foreign bodies to guarantee disaster...
MEAT-PACKING CHECKUPS will be stepped up by Agriculture Department if Secretary Benson gets bigger appropriation to do job. Department wants to head off campaign by small packers to shift Benson's police powers to FTC on grounds he has been lax about such things as price discrimination, e.g., giveaway coupons by big packers...