Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of understanding between the student waiters and those in charge of the service in the Freshman Dining Halls is the chief finding of the Advisory Committee on Student Employment, contained in an exhaustive report issued by that committee late last night...
...public, in eastern, anthracite-using states there was a certain degree of coal shortage, but nothing very grave because of the influx of substitutes for anthracite. Tha most suffering was in Pennsylvania, in the coal mining regions, where not only the miners are suffering for lack of necessities but whole communities are in the grip of depression, merchants being in sad straits because of lost purchasers, and banks having to tighten their credit arrangements...
...loco parentis attitude, Dr. Stearns has had many dealings with parents whom he, more than most principals, may hold accountable for the early training of their sons. His chapter is on "Home Influence" and in it he remarks on the necessity for home discipline, the carelessness and lack of understanding of many modern parents, the large percentage of school derelictions due to discord, separation and divorce in the home...
...University shifts, something which no other opponent of the Crimson has been able to do this year. Fight, speed, and a thorough knowledge of the game, has been reputed to the Crimson's opponents of tonight and Coach Pettyman expects his men to show favorably in spite of their lack of weight...
...learning--for a few years at least--what standards have and should still exist by which he is to measure the worth of his own work. He is getting ideas. And most of this profusion of mediocrity in contemporary art is due primarily to a lack of sane and sufficient standards, of sane and sufficient thinking. As an undergraduate he is free to learn these standards, to absorb that sanity. So his college cramp may not--in the end--be more than the restraint necessary for ht realization of a creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary...