Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bands either drag when they try it, or think that the nervous excitement resulting from the "stiff" drive style is better. Goodman used to think so, and things like "Sing, Sing, Sing" resulted. But people soon tire of the constant pound of the style and grow sick of the dearth of ideas in the music. So Goodman is trying to shift his band to the other style. Whether he will succeed is a moot question...
...dearth of students genuinely interested in their work cannot be blamed solely on teaching methods. Certainly another contributing factor is to be found in the fact that colleges and universities have so increased in both size and numbers that they include in their classes many unfitted to receive a liberal arts education. Just as there is no single cause for a decline in the number of students classed by Mr. Frost as "self-starters," so there is no single panacea which will remedy the situation. However, the inclusion on university faculties of men of Mr. Frost's liberal outlook...
...whimsical one-acter, My Heart's in the Highlands, drew praise from many critics. Last week, with his first full-length play, Saroyan had most of the critics throwing their hats in the air. They were willing to forgive The Time of Your Life its lack of form and dearth of plot because of its "poignant beauty," "high quality of imagination," "ever-warming tenderness...
Contrast this situation with the one hundred per cent dearth in the East. New England college students never get any closer to drum majorettes than leering at their pictures in "Click." Here is a chance once and for all for Harvard to establish her intellectual supremacy. She can start a movement among the Ivy Colleges which will burn up the league. It might be objected that all-male educational institutions are in a slightly different position from the coed plants of the West, but what about the American Legion...
...pickle prospects are good. Probable gross: slightly better than 1938's $40,000,000. Pressing problems for this year are a shortage of dills (a reaction from last year's overselling of the dill market) and a dearth of one-bite pickles. Last year's summer rains played hob with this year's little fellows. Cucumbers grew overnight from midgets to larger sizes before they could be picked. This year's prospects (for next year's pickles) are better...