Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard is to try next. Flexibility within Harvard itself will be aided by President Conant's frank recognition that the Tutorial system is not appropriate for all students. If it is not adaptable to laboratory sciences, it is just as little fitted to a large group of students who lack the intellectual appetite to do significant work under Tutorial guidance...
...special telegram to the CRIMSON, Alf Halvorsen, president of the Nansen Ski Club, sponsors of the race, announced that lack of snow and impassable road conditions have necessitated this move. The committee now plans to hold the races on Saturday and Sunday, April...
...apart from this I must apologize for the purely local colour which events at Cambridge (ENG.) seem to have borne during the last week, and for the lack of matter in even so short a letter as this. We will both have better luck next week I hope...
...Spirit of revenge. . . . Spirit of secrecy!" screamed the Orator, his passion rising. "Spirit of hatred! . . . Lack of sense began to triumph...
...that very reason the one most dear to me." Records show that for Leonore's big aria, Komm Hoffnung, he tried 18 different attacks, ten for his concluding chorus. He wrote four overtures be fore he was satisfied, each seething with symphonic ideas. Handicaps were his lack of theatre technique, his stormy impatience with what seemed to be intrigue. In a revised version the opera had a more promising start. But after two performances, Beethoven felt that he was being cheated out of his rightful share of the receipts. He complained to the manager who suggested that his earnings...