Word: laxness
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...Both good leftists, they went to a meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America, during which meeting a riot inadvertently began, as a result of which riot comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor for conviction not justice; and also there were loyal Khaki Shirts who were willing to swear that Terzani fired the shot that...
Because fewer ducks are winging South each season, the Foundation has been inclined to discount the importance of overshooting, modern firearms, lax game law enforcement as causes of duck decline. Last July it sent researchers on a 3400-mi. jaunt through the heart of North America's chief wild duck nursery-the prairies of North Dakota and Montana in the U. S., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta in Canada-to find out what was happening to the ducks before they started South. The surveyors found the region, from a duck's viewpoint, in a sorry state. Where ducks once...
...Berlin the German Foreign Exchange Control Bureau, which is supposed to see that no traveler leaves the Fatherland with more than 200 marks ($65), suddenly tightened up this lax regulation* last week with respect exclusively to steamship tickets. Intending travelers, both German and foreign, were told that they might spend as much as they liked on German steamship tickets, but must get a special permit ("which will only be issued for very good reasons") from the Bureau if they wished to spend more than 200 marks booking passage on a foreign ship. Since no trans-Atlantic passage can be bought...
...selective system need not be mutually exclusive, for inflexible standards might be applied and a personal evaluation made of the survivors. As the sole system in use, selective admission must lower standards, and the decline must be reflected in the secondary schools whose graduation requirements are already painfully lax. The present college courses which provide a wearying knowledge of elementary dates, elementary syntax, and even more elementary English composition are the result of that laxity, and would have to be even more extensively invoked...
...will have Putnam as center and Hodder and Captain Alexander Fletcher of Yale as wings. Chase will be the pivot of the second forward line, supported by Baldwin and Paul Curtis of Yale, and in the third line Pell and Moseley will be in the wing positions and John Lax of Boston University at center...