Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London news-organs, England's Press peers complained that the program of George V's Jubilee procession is only half a column long, whereas Queen Victoria's in 1897 was a five-column procession. Headlined the Star: "A FOUR HOUR WAIT-FOR WHAT? Misgivings about the lack of pageantry...
...unacquainted with the value of this inexpensive form of advertising. ... At the hands of our Huey Longs and Father Coughlins our inherited institutions are indeed in danger. It may be a fair question to ask whether the author of such a destructive public attack . . . has disclosed such a complete lack of any sense of social responsibility that by his own act he has classified himself among the dangerous men of our time." Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Arthur Holly Compton thought that "in a university, if radical viewpoints were not discussed, it would mean that such a university was intellectually stagnant...
...with spectacular ideas are popping up by thousands. The U. S. S. R. has a guild of inventors whose membership in the Moscow region alone is reported around 30,000. Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they make up for in imagination. Thus it is that Russia is flooded with garish science news and the Soviet citizen has hardly time to catch his breath after one marvel before another is upon...
Despite the lack of scrimmage work, Coach Harlow expressed himself satisfied with the results of the practice sessions. Many new candidates have been drawn by the prospect of a new deal in Harvard football, and while few of the lettermen participated in the drills to any great extent, much progress has been made toward the formation of a strong, evenly balanced squad for next fall...
...Activities essential for what Harvard is," and "Value of extra-curricular work should be stressed more" constantly appear beside the complaints against the lack of time caused by financial and scholastic pressures...