Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following statement which occurs in the CRIMSON account of the change in management at the Stadium Concessions needs some explanation: "The special complaint that was lodged against the present administration of the stands was the lack of attractiveness and efficiency that has characterized the conduct of the concessions under the management of graduate school...
...special complaint that was lodged against the present administration of the stands was the lack of attractiveness and efficiency that has characterized the conduct of the concession under the management of graduate school men. Each year two men from the graduate schools have been appointed to head the Stadium concessions and it is felt by the H.A.A. that with a professional caterer at the head more efficient service can be given...
...world's greatest books. Before that time and since, they have earned the hatred of the civilized world as persecutors and robbers of the enlightened, and as bloody butchers of the German working class. Now, alarmed by what the ultra-conservative New York Herald Tribune calls the "lack of enthusiasm" on the part of the German workers for the Nazi regime, they are turning in a frenzy to a new and possibly greater orgy of slaughter. They have won the gratitude of the German capitalists and munitions makers by driving down the living standards of the German workers to starvation...
...stretch rubber prices to $1.23 per lb., but when the restriction scheme collapsed the price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's inveighing against it but lack of cooperation by Dutch planters in the East Indies. The harder the British bore down on production, the faster the Dutch planted...
...demanding a showdown on what had been rumored for many a day-AP's plan to send all its news pictures by telephoto. The idea originated with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which had spent $2,800,000 on a telephoto system, only to abandon it last summer for lack of patronage. Prime reason: pictures were rarely good or important enough to warrant the expense of telephoto transmission instead of fast delivery by airmail. Secondary reasons: there were transmitting stations in only eight cities. It took an hour to prepare a picture for transmission, and the results usually were fuzzy...