Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent Student Councils have failed to accomplish. And it not improbably approximates its picture in the minds of those whom the Council "represents"--in its own curious way. Yet the Council in, so acting would be merely fulfilling the University's expectations which have long since been shrivelled from lack of nourishment and even hope. For an impasse has been reached on rather a state of inertia, and there appears not even a Slayphus. Just as there is not one capable of stopping the seven o'clock bell there is probably no one capable of starting the Council...
...scholastic difficulties of athletes might spur them on to more serious study. He was aware, he said, of the practice of quieting reports of men being barred from competition because of classroom deficiencies, but he was of the opinion that those whose downfall was due to their own lack of study deserved little sympathy...
Beggar on Horseback. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies! have gratified even more than usual their impish itching to scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family...
...Several "Swat the Boss!'s" are omitted for lack of space...
...students. It is this necessity for complete utilization of available equipment that has fostered the innovation of February to February classes, the first of which finishes its two year course this month. Though novel, this practice is not to be condemned except in so far as it reveals lack of equipment...