Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refereeing is a very difficult problem to contend with. How many officials interpret the rules alike? No two in my mind. Some are very lenient, others very strict. I may say the officiating is very unsatisfactory as the players cannot tell just how to play. All this has a tendency to retard the progress of the game as a national indoor pastime. There is no reason why basketball should not be as popular with the youth of our nation in the fall and winter months as baseball is in the summer. There is no question about its attractiveness...
...compilation of the damage done by the Imperial armies is nearing completion and for some months now England and France have been at odds as to whether or not the German financial experts are to be consulted before the exact amount is decided on. England is inclined to be lenient--for obvious reasons. She is quite ready to resume her former trade with the Central Powers and naturally does not want them to be so hopelessly ruined as to prevent their purchase of British goods. She therefore welcomes a German voice in the matter...
...well-known fact England and France have differed from the first as to the policy which should be adopted toward their common adversary--France insisting upon one of strict exclusion and domination, England favoring a more lenient attitude. During the two years following the armistice, while Germany lay supine and comparatively helpless, there could be no more than parliamentary debate upon the question, as each country tried to win the other to its own views. Now that Germany has sufficiently recovered, however, to be able to take her place once again in the world markets, the problem...
...which deportations have been carried on; but in most cases, our reasons were quite opposed to those of the congressman. So many eminent persons have protested against the injustice done by the Government agents that it is quite a pleasant contrast to hear them accused of being over-lenient...