Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity and Freshman cross country teams begin their fall season today at 3.30 o'clock in a meet with Holy Cross. M. I. T. was originally scheduled to enter the meet, but was forced to withdraw due to lack of practice...
There seems to be a well-established conviction that college Freshmen have a regrettable lack of familiarity with the Facts of Life. Hence the compulsory course in sex-hygiene, which in its present vague character amounts to little more than a useless drain of a first-year man's time. The lectures give a mere smattering of elementary physiology and deep-breathing; and only a few of them are actually concerned with sex hygiene...
...nuisance value than a commercial one, and will tangibly lower the nation's diplomatic batting average. The failure of ninety-five per cent of the debt-payments due last year resulted not merely from the poverty of the defaulting and token-paying countries, but also from the lack of any pre-arranged agreement acceptable to both sides...
...Angeles branch of the University of California (7,000 students) for the first time introduced graduate work, limited however by lack of funds. The nearby University of Southern California opened a new School of Research, a branch of its Graduate School. Centred mainly in U. S. C.'s handsome new Edward Laurence Doheny Junior Memorial Library, it will offer 105 courses in all branches of knowledge. Last week about 100 Ph.D.-seekers enrolled, were characterized by Dean Rockwell Dennis Hunt as not only "masters in some known field of art or science but discoverers and creators as well...
...prospects for the winter. It looked bad. There was no doubt that Chief Mammoth-jaw O'Brien was not the man the tribe had thought. The magic of his thunder-bearing oratory was losing force, and his latest attempts at balancing the budget had revealed a dismaying lack of biceptual muscle, as well as nearly causing a village riot. In the next election it was all too possible that a revolt might swing the tide to Fiorello Laguardia, the Fusionist contender. If this occurred, the Tammany wigwam was likely to do a sizeable amount of starving in the ensuing months...