Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morris also suggests that this compulsive "conscientiousness" among Radcliffe students also causes a dearth of "imagination" among female students. Evidence from different fields seems to indicate just the opposite, however. Pettigrew notes that girls in his course, Soc. Rel. 134, which concerns modern social problems such as integration, are more willing to take an "adventurous stand" than their Harvard colleagues. This might well be true, he says, because girls will never have to take the responsibility for their radical opinions after college. Nevertheless, the girls' approach toward the course, "irresponsible" or not, does lead to top grades. Each year...
Critics may carp about the dearth of live television shows, reports the trade magazine Television Age, but so far as the general public is concerned, it could hardly care less. After sending Pulse, Inc. to pry into 1,000 TV-equipped homes, Television Age was surprised to learn that nearly 82% of televiewers never wondered whether a program was live or filmed. So many people guessed wrong about so many programs, said the magazine, "that maybe all the industry polemics regarding live and film is pretty much a waste of time and breath...
...real asset of teaching machines, of course, and very likely the reason so much money is being spent now on their research and development, is the terrific dearth of teachers in this country. If teaching machines could be run off assembly lines as just another gadget and someday became as common as television sets, the few teachers there are could be liberated from the more ponderous tasks of mechanical instruction they now have to perform, and the dilemma of the teacher shortage could be substantially diminished, if not wiped out entirely...
...dearth of returning players has made Winthrop the dark horse in the race. Poor attendance last year caused a lack of experienced talent, and the Puritans must base their hopes on the few remaining seniors left in the line...
Despite the rigor of their studies and the dearth of diversion in pious Boston, students still managed to exercise their time-honored right to cut classes...