Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efficient working out of these improvements, it is in that slight word "flexibility" which is not seldom used to cover a multitude of sins and open a fortress of loop-holes. The worth of the adoption of the suggestion is to be tested by the amount of leeway allowed. True it is that there are many situations where set rules cannot be applied,--where inefficiency or injustice would be the result. But care must be taken that what start out as exceptions to general principles now subscribed to do not become the rule...
Comrade Chowder will come to Cambridge from a retreat in Leavenworth in an armored plane, L. Lane Leeway, President of the Young Conservatives, declared yesterday in a prepared statement. "Marx my word," Leeway added, "Chowder will be able to handle even the Student Union hecklers--all right, all right--after all he has lectured at Yale...
When the board met fortnight ago, both books had been approved by a State textbook committee of educators. Harcourt's price was lower ($1.06 to $1.17 bid by Row, Peterson), but the board has leeway to judge quality. While the seven board members deliberated behind closed doors, it was reported that Board President Ghent Sanderford, former Governor James Ferguson's man, favored the Harcourt book, that another member was equally strong for an agent of Row, Peterson, a former local school superintendent who had helped nurse him through three years of tuberculosis...
...jail sentences (either week-end or continuous) are given fines, if the offender is the car owner or related to the owner who is insured, the Judge imposes a fine depending on circumstances. If the offender is not insured, Judge Gitelman imposes a fine of $75 (which allows enough leeway to cover public liability insurance for personal injury and property damage on any car) and gives the offender the choice of paying the fine, surrendering his driving license for 60 days, or suspending as much of the fine as will pay for the minimum public liability policy, which must...
...leeway for passing in work ordinarily done at preparatory school is two years, and the pass-word is a C in one of the adequate courses or a good grade for an exam given three times a year. Thus for two years the axe of probation is sheathed while the student is presumed to be taking the courses he needs. If there is another year of grace given and if the student's work fails to pass the exam a third time, he must clutter up his Senior year with an elementary language. If there are to be language requirements...