Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with the muse of science, and needs a bit of rejuvenation along more humane lines. Harvard's great lack today is an official taster...
...Eaton, when scandals of hasty-pudding and beer rocked Harvard to her foundations, to the clanking of the guillotine in the Lowell House courtyard last spring, it has been axiomatic that this college battles as well as travels on its stomach. The mechanical men of Mr. Westcott's organization lack the human touch, and the call for an endowed chair in food tasting grows ever louder. Such a bequest would be a noble contribution for Harvard's Anniversary year...
Some changes are necessary if the conflicting aims and lack of vigor which have characterized the Council in recent years are to be conquered. Possibly, this will come from a changed attitude within the organization, but the reasons which prompted the resolution under discussion should receive detailed attention...
...window shades. Unrolled, they proved to be six separate paintings on specially woven flexible Dutch canvas that could be detached and placed separately about the walls. This device was the contribution of Artist Hilaire Hiler, 38, to the dilemma of art-lovers living in apartments which lack sufficient wall space to display canvases. Because the individual window shades are not unlike ancient Japanese kakemono paintings, Hilaire Hiler has called the whole contraption a Hilermono...
...unfortunate results of the expansion of our activities and the increased specialization has been the resulting lack of fluidity in our funds...