Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success, there must be efficient managers, men whose duty it is to see that the necessary equipment is at the field of play when needed. Yet many of these functions have been neglected during the current season. Failure to announce the Leverett-Adams game almost caused postponement because of lack of men. Men who have been taken out of the scrimmages have been compelled to sit on the sidelines without blankets or hoods. There has been a general complaint against the lack of systematic announcement of games on the house bulletin boards, it is unfair to criticize Mr. Samborski...
...films to Paris by air, hoping to catch the Bremen or Aquitania about to sail for the U. S. To their indescribable rage, the films were seized at Le Bourget Airport and at Cherbourg on orders of the Surété Nationale, because supposedly the pictures vividly illustrated lack of police protection for Alexander. After two days of wrangling, the French authorities finally released the films in time to catch the George Washington, due in Manhattan this week. Universal Newsreel barely overtook the steamer at sea, dropped its films from an airplane to the deck. Meanwhile some reels, including...
...unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...
Foreign exchange was mysterious business even when the dollar was a dollar and the mark a mark. Today, what with the sum total of the world's defaults, devaluations, regulations, restrictions, registrations, quotas, permits, impounded balances, standstill agreements, stabilization funds or the lack of them, money-changing is a nightmare. Foreign exchange traders are probably the coolest, shrewdest, most tireless and nimble-witted crew in the world, but the Paris correspondent of the New York Times last week declared: "The extraordinarily complicated character of the present situation seems to have discouraged even the most hardened speculators...
...plan finds no lack of precedent already established in the University. The graduate school has recognized the advantages of foreign study and though it still insists on making an imperious distinction on the merit of foreign courses it seems to be moving in the direction of full recognition of the equality of European study with that at Harvard. Rapid adoption of the plan for undergraduate study seems to wait only upon the overcoming of customary Cambridge inertia...