Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average Freshman knows less than half of the candidates and votes for those he knows best. Therefore we believe that more time and opportunities for consideration of the nominees should be allowed members of the class and that there should be fewer nominees. There has been a noticeable lack of interest in and knowledge of the elections which we believe is due to the lack of publicity given to the election by those in charge. (Names withheld by request...
...interesting chapter on "The Inferiority Complex in Art" Mr. Fry relates the modernist cult in the arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...
Even now it is admitted that individuals and small concerns generally lack sufficient capital to carry on a protracted legal battle to protect what they regard as their rights. The proposed legislation intends to make prohibitive what was improbable before. It is the small stock holder in public utilities who is the chief sufferer as T.V.A. plans are being carried out, and it is the small business man who finds the N.R.A. particularly oppressive. It requires little imagination to see the administrative statisticians conjuring up a fantastic loss from the hypothetical "sale of power," plus extravagant legal charges. An "adequate...
This younger child (see cut) crawled about the floor like a frog, and its poor little body was so deformed from lack of nourishment that it did not resemble a human being. Its mother had died of starvation when it was one year...
Last week, after four years of deficits, Baldwin's directors voted to file a petition to reorganize under section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. It was not altogether because of a lack of business. The company had had its best year since 1931, with orders for locomotives, Diesel engines, turbines, steel castings and other equipment totaling nearly $22,000,000 against $10,600,000 the year before. Baldwin's chief troubles were fixed charges and lack of working capital, Its cash account, which led investors in 1930 to look upon the company as impregnable, had dwindled...