Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schedule is again pretty slack for the week with Princeton being slated to play Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in the only League game. Bix Six in League Player AB R H Ave. Polzer, Cor. 42 10 19 .452 Hill, P. 31 4 14 .452 Lupien, H. 37 9 16 .432 Bowen, Cor. 28 5 12 .429 Besse, Y. 27 2 11 .407 Trexler...
...knows the cause of facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...
...strove was an admirable one. Any elimination of "vagueness, planlessness, and lack of logic" in the system of admissions is to be welcomed. And conversely, any definition of standards--provided that these standards are not made absolute and that the Masters are not deprived of a very necessary discretionary slack--is very desirable. But concentration upon criteria alone is a profitless business, for exposition of standards by no means solves the admissions question. A certain amount of injustice and error must be fatalistically accepted. No matter how definite the criteria, and no matter how reasonable, these are, the complexity...
...writer, who signed himself "W. R. Slack," grudgingly came across with a few facts. The college is "now celebrating its hundredth year of sev- teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...
...obvious temporary expedient would be to let students eat in the Houses in which they were denied residence. By restricting this privilege to, say ten meals a week, and by regulating the hours of eating so as to take up the slack period, the system would almost certainly be feasible...