Word: lenient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Michael J. Brennan, of the Cambridge Police Department, when interviewed yesterday declared that he had already discharged 36 cases with reprimands. He said that the intended to be similarly lenient with the remaining ten cases before him, but that he planned to exact the full fine of ten dollars for any future cases of parking law violations...
Having thus visited mildness upon the immigrants, the officials were less inclined to be lenient with the companies. It was found that the companies could be fined $200 per immigrant plus the amount of their passage money (usually about $100), both sums to be given over to the immigrants. With 1,800 immigrants involved, the fines aggregated over half a million dollars. The lines, of course, protested, to no avail. Since the transgressing ships could not get clearance papers unless a large deposit were paid against the forthcoming fines, the lines had little choice. The Baltic-American line...
...success of his work in the " rejuvenation " of old men. The sensational claims and misleading publicity which attend the work of seekers after the elixir of youth have obscured Voronoff's careful experimental basis and have made him suspect with conservative scientific men. But professional opinion is growing more lenient as increasing numbers of surgeons in various countries are experimenting with these methods. In America, Dr. G. Frank Lydston, the eminent Chicago specialist who died last winter, was a pioneer in gland implantation. Voronoff's book, Life, in which he set forth some of his theories, appeared in English...
...Honors". This latter, which requires a severe oral quiz and a long thesis in addition to a high course record and certain specified studies, entitles the successful candidate to "Honors" or "Highest Honors". But the "magna cum" or "summa cum" is awarded without any oral examination, and with more lenient requirements in other respects: Anglo-Saxon, for example, is not necessary; and the thesis represents less exacting work. Consequently the degree "with Honors" in English corresponds to the degree "with Distinction" in most other departments; while the degree "with Distinction" in English means considerably less. Yet it is represented...
...music, was very ordinary, with the possible exceptions of "How Do You Doodle" and "Sun Showers", which possessed elements of tunefulness. But Mr. Delf, according to the program, was responsible for book, music, and lyrics, and so we must be lenient with him for not excelling in one field, when the scintillates in the other--that of being funny...