Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent flagrant example in the French department reveals an absolute lack of attention to the problem of selecting texts. The outside reading books in French A are picked from a group of little pamphlets which come in four series, each more difficult than the last, and each series, contains four books. Since French A is the elementary course, its outside reading was supposed to come from rather easy books, so the authorities picked a book listed as "Grade I", without bothering to notice that it was "Grade J" in the fourth and most difficult series...
Leading a retinue of 25 men, Coach Joe Stubbs will be faced with the prospect of three stiff games on consecutive nights when he takes the Varsity ice squad to Lack Placid for the approaching Christmas Holiday...
Strangest aspect of the career of the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence was the astonishing lack of success that attended his efforts to keep out of the public...
...Monte Cristo," reported on a Connecticut newspaper. Finally, 1914, a year before he left Harvard, he turned to play writing. His first plays were of the sea, the others have dealt with both countryside and swarming city all grim, sharp pieces except for Ah Wilderness, which did not lack sharpness. His themes and technique admit no confines...
Free offer of a hermetically sealed box by a firm was vetoed by President Conant, because of the danger that lack of air might lead to chemical decomposition of the contents. But for the 1936 president who knows his chemistry, the 2036 president might ceremoniously open a box full of dust...