Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hooted away before the dreary game of platting has begun, so that the 200 need never set out through the mud. But within the lineaments of this small gimcrack may be discerned what is a very real and very large deficiency in the National Recovery Administration--its distressing lack of coordination, its undeniable muscular ague. Banking recovery has lagged so far behind industrial stimulus as to produce a dangerous gap in credit; Mr. Ickes, in however small a way, is flying directly in the face of economic reason, and building for us bathos. Let the errant horses be yoked...
...other hand, has felt called upon to reverse without warning its views of Soviet diplomacy, now terming it shamefully weak and spineless where before they thought it insidious plotting against the safety of the civilized world; the Times has gone so far as actually to bewail the lack of supporting connection between the Kremlin and the Third International). Other papers, however, have asserted with surprise and some glee that conflict is approaching and apparently not unwelcome to either government. But despite the very considerable friction which has developed over the main source of trouble (the Soviet owned Chinese Eastern Railway...
...Cambridge has declined sadly. The sole custodian of the theatre in the University at present is the Harvard Dramatic Club, an organization that after several years of mediocrity shows great improvement. The largest single obstacle to still surther progress on the part of the Dramatic Club is the lack of any suitable place in which to produce their plays, particularly since the demolition of the Rogers building...
Arguing from his intimate knowledge of the progression of events in Germany, Carl J. Friedrich, Associate Professor of Government, maintained that there was a possibility of predatory coercion by minority interest groups rather than state social coercion. This would be greatly intensified in America because of the lack of a well-developed bureaucracy and would be characterized by a partial disintegration of the centralized state power. Dr. G. C. S. Benson, Instructor in Government, posed the question of who would control the state if the state tried to control economic life. He suggested that America's failure in public utility...
There has been some criticism of the University's failure to join the ranks of the Blue Eagle. Inasmuch as Harvard stands in the position of employer to something over 4,000 wage earners, this policy has been looked upon as evidence of a lack of public spirit on the part of a wealthy, professedly liberal institution. A close examination of all the factors involved, without Harvard as well as within, reveals such criticism as fundamentally short-sighted...