Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that the most efficient method of university teaching is obtained by the lecture system, supplemented by tutorial work" Professor J. V. Portus, of the University of Sydney, Australia, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "In Australian universities" he added, "we rely largely upon the lecture system, however, because of lack of sufficient funds to provide a large faculty...
...flourished in 1900, is now set to music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...
Those people are dumb, for they lack vocal.cords. The vocal cords are two short bands of muscles that cross the larynx. In breathing air passes between the cords. To make sounds, the cords assume varying tensions; the passing air makes them vibrate; vowel sounds result: the palate acts as a sounding board, the mouth as a resonance chamber. In talking the palate, tongue, teeth and lips modify vocal sounds into speech...
...author's own invention. Praised by many critics, it caused Frank Sullivan, playboy of the New York World, to join the old, outmoded, bedroom school of literary criticism in his admission that the book had caused his boudoir reading lamp to burn long and late. Perhaps an extravagance, a lack of grace in critical compliments implies a lack of capability in the critic, but in this case the grotesque writhing of reviewers is only in one sense unnatural. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne thoroughly deserves the applause, if not the applesauce, which has been heaped upon...
Thus Harvard avoids both the over-interference in her students choice of studies that characterizes the first two years at other colleges, and she also avoids the lack of systematic faculty direction that is characteristic of the last two years at the other colleges. She avoids the one by greatly decreasing the number of required subjects, only requiring (after Freshman year, which also is much freer than in most colleges) four courses altogether. She avoids the other by having her students plan their whole course early in their college career and most of all by assigning them tutors, whose business...