Word: leniently
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...anti-Saloon League is to be believed, all of them would have died long ago if they had sampled their own wares. Furthermore, bootleggers are already earnest advocates of prohibition; because their whole trade is dependent on a federal enforcement which is neither too strict nor too lenient...
Have Been Extremely Lenient...
...gentlemanly tradition of the College is challenged. A long series of abuses of reading room privileges has provoked a very moderate protest, printed elsewhere, from the harassed Librarian. The disclosure of stealing, mutilation, and abuses of purposely lenient rules but repeats common knowledge; the student body is well aware that some users of the library are robbing the rest by mean and annoying practices. The whole gamut of petty crime, from defacement of pictures and pages to temporary removal or real theft, is traversed by a few, too inconsiderate of others and too greedy of their own convenience...
...trouble in Cambridge with the students on election night yet. So long as they have a permit to parade, we do not care how much they enjoy themselves, provided they keep within the bounds of reason. In dealing with students the police have always been inclined to be lenient rather than severe, but if it should be necessary for us to act, we will act promptly and forcefully...
...Nevertheless [here Editor Menck.en became uncharacteristically lenient], I believe they can still acquire it. But not by drawing up codes of ethics that most of their fellows laugh at, as a Congressman laughs at a gentleman. . . . There are dozens of papers in the U. S. that already show a determined effort to get out of the old slough. Any managing editor in the land, if he has the will, can carry his paper with them. ... Is the paper trifling, ill-informed, petty and unfair? Is its news full of transparent absurdities? Are its editorials ignorant and without sense...