Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British institutions, which refused the invitation, not for lack of scholastic respect, but because they insisted on dragging politics in, lost an excellent chance to express their disapproval by honoring an institution which, as they well know, has opposed the same policies they condemn. But politics should not enter...
Richard W. Sullivan '38, the other Crimson speaker, advanced the argument of the inflexibility of Congress in legislation and of its lack of adaptability to individual cases...
With regard to Advisers Harvard has tried to get something for nothing and has met with the usual experience of bargain counters. The lack of pay, or, what is equivalent, an alleviation of their normal duties, is the most important cause of the breakdown of the Freshman Advisers. Throughout the history of the system the position has been regarded as a burden to be discharged as perfunctorily as possible. The man who really takes his work in this field seriously and meets with any measure of success, of whom Walsh Hammond, and Graustein are the most conspicuous examples, deserves...
...short interval during which he serves combines with the lack of pay to stifle the spirit of the Freshman Adviser. It is hardly worthwhile for either the University of the individual to formulate any real plan of action when the group will soon be made up of entirely new men. Under such conditions it is surprising that out of 150 Adviser's reports that were supposed to be submitted this month to one of the major departments, only seventy-five were actually handed in, of which eight turned out to be of any practical...
Elizabeth Bowen's progress as a novelist has been no less remarkable than the lack of attention her progress has aroused. Though it was obvious from her first book that she was an exceptionally gifted writer she has had the unfortunate faculty of frightening plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend...