Word: lenient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observations on the transference of physical characteristics and Professor Kammerer was hailed by some as brilliant genius, by others as deluded fool. Dr. G. K. Noble of the American Museum of Natural History examined Professor Kammerer's depositions and in an article for Nature (British monthly) drew the lenient conclusion that someone may have tampered with Dr. Kammerer's specimens. In particular, certain dark spots on some of the frogs might have been produced., not by inheritance, but by injecting a dark fluid under the skin, perhaps India ink. When he saw this suggestion, Dr. Kammerer...
...Caillaux, leaving hastily after the meagre vote of confidence rushed to London. There he bargained for lenient Franco-British debt terms got them. France will pay in the current financial year about $20,000,000, with gradually increasing payments until the 60th year, when the full previously arranged $62,500,000 will be reached. M. Caillaux's cold financial heart pulsated with gratitude at Chancellor Churchill's concession of a "safeguard clause" (protection of French interests in the event Germany should default in her reparations payments...
Prohibition. Measures alike for making the Volstead Act more stringent and making it more lenient were announced to be dead last week...
...Instead of infesting this country why does not Busch return to his own kind and live happily with Schwarz? America is too lenient with such persons...
...curious to notice the difference in world opinion 50 years ago and now. When I first went to Europe people everywhere were interested in the United States. They thought of America as a way out of the poverty and misery in which they were living." She appealed for more lenient immigration laws to restore the lost illusion of the Land of Promise, to put an end to the "inhumane separation of families...