Word: lacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feminists. Relatively few girls major in the Natural Sciences, which award the highest number of summa degrees. Since most areas in this field do require General Examinations, or thesis preparation, and since Honors are usually calculated on the basis of grades in which the 'Cliffies hold the edge, the lack of the girls' overall superiority may be due the small number in Natural Sciences...
...year at the University of Utah before heading for Washington in search of a job-and Lenore, who had moved there when her father took a Government job. Romney was hired by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator David I. Walsh as a speedwriter. When his speedwriting turned out to lack speed, Walsh kept him on anyway, put him to work keeping track of legislative matters...
Short Trips. At Alcoa, Romney was frustrated by lack of opportunity to advance through the layers of executives. "As near as I could figure it," he says, "I would have been about go by the time I rose to the top." When the Automobile Manufacturers Association offered him a job as manager of its Detroit office, he jumped at the chance...
...burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country at the United Nations, where he will presumably wind up lecturing the West on its lack of spiritual qualities...
...Despite lack of sales, Tinguely has his critical admirers. One critic has called him a new Prometheus "who has subdued the demon machine, forcing it to produce satisfyingly random results." Another has hailed "an entirely revolutionary art," adding: "This art knows neither beginning nor end nor future; only eternal transformation. It is the exemplary materialization of relativism." Tinguely agrees. Says he: "In my paintings, there is only pure event, pure transformation. If you want to stop the painting and look at it, don't buy my work. Go buy a Van Gogh...