Word: leniently
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When asked whether the plan had proved too lenient and whether there would be a closer checking-up next year, he replied that a student would be just as likely to take liberties with more regular classes as he would with fewer conferences, and that the course would not be changed next year on this account. "We are not interested in holding classes merely as a disciplinary measure," he said, "but we want the students to write well and read intelligently, and we have found the conference system best fitted for this purpose...
...beautiful city of Mexico, surrounded by a broad lake filled with floating gardens and stocked with the glorious achievements of Indian art. If the Aztec religion demanded the palpitating hearts of its victims to appease the fury of the Gods, none can say that the Spanish Inquisition was more lenient...
...that levies every conceivable product, rent and income with an absurd percentage. If such law is finally enacted (was passed by the Cuban Senate tn three hours' time without study or discussion), it shall mean our FINISH for good. God have mercy on us and may be lenient with Machado when his last moment comes...
...full Commission of five but by Chairman George Otis Smith and Commissioners Claude L. Draper and Marcel Garsaud organizing as a quorum of three. Also dismissed just as he was submitting his resignation was Executive Secretary Frank R. Bonner, often accused of being too friendly and lenient with private power companies seeking licenses before the old Commission...
Poland will soon adopt a new legal code upon which TIME will report, stating whether Communists will continue liable to the Death penalty after its enactment. At present the courts are somewhat lenient and the Death sentencing of Communists at Lemberg was an exception. According to despatches the accused denied that they were Communists, but the Lemberg Court held that their possession of much Communist literature established the presumption that they were Communists. Upon this presumption and its corollary that a Communist is a traitor they were sentenced to Death. Communist deputies are of course protected by their parliamentary immunity...