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Word: laxer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general adoption of a laxer attitude on the part of school and college authorities would unquestionably give rise to the growth of a class of pseudo students whose only aim in going to a large institution would be to compete in athletics as long as they could stay, and then, reputation earned, to find employment, athletic or otherwise, on the basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXETER'S DECISION | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...proportion to the older New England industry. Under existing conditions many advantages to the South lay in this steadily growing competition. The Southern mills were nearer the raw material; cheaper and more tractable mill sites and more American labor are to be had there, too. In addition, the laxer laws as to child labor, which is a large factor in the low-grade spinning industry especially, are more lax South than North of the Mason and Dixon line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: South vs. New England | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

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