Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum this week, came upon a curious bit of taxidermy. The label, like all Peabody labels, was in flower long before Saki's colonel, and it reads "Broad-Billed Bandicoot." Spurred on by his discovery, the student of biology is now planning to invade Widener's "Books Uncatalogued for Lack of Funds, 1932-1933, 115,000." After all, there are still a few books of Tacitus and Livy unaccounted...
...London Assurance." She is really no more than a forerunner and a portent. Her history is interesting to the biographically minded and to specialists. This version of it shows up incidentally but rather well, the stodginess of the reviewers in the earlier nineteenth century, the nearly complete lack of public taste, and the banality of stagecraft Despite its deft writing, it is a depressing little pamphlet, revealing more than one likes to see of the awful depths to which even the bravest and best of English dramaturges have sunk...
...added mile-stone on the road to a degree. No faculty would admit of its practicality without an increase of its members or its salaries. And when America is spending $386,000,000 less this year on secondary education than it did in 1930, when 175,000 school children lack primary training in the three R's because their communities lack cash, such a course is patently impractical. The only solution appears to be a sharper differentiation between men who are going to college and those who are not, a stiffening of the standards of the former, and, most important...
...broader stockholder representation, fewer officer-directors-and bluntly told the Lapham family that its holdings entitled it to one director, not three. It urged the company to hire an "executive of outstanding experience and proven ability," recommended that Jack Lapham be ousted as chairman of the executive committee for lack of practical oil knowledge. It criticized the bonus plans (lately dropped) and loans to employes and officers (including Mr. Holmes). It took the management to task for spending company funds in its counterattack on Mr. Holmes, for using company employes to drum up proxies. But, said the committee, "such antagonism...
...critical standards can prove that Vincent, and his learned contemporaries, were themselves credulous of these legends. If they did not distinguish fact from fancy in the modern scholarly manner, the fair inference is that this proves, not a moony confusion of fact with fancy, but the lack of a systematic scholarly apparatus for the distinction...