Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notably absent and unmentioned at last week's ceremony was the heroine for whom Southampton's mighty new bed was made, the Cunard Line's unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy...
...answer to the question concerning the features most disliked, the Union tied with answers in the general thenor: long condemnation of Hollis Hall in which she mentioned that "living in a room occupied by Ralph Waldo Emerson and evidently not renovated since then is scant compensation for the lack of sun, the noise of prowling males at midnight under my first floor window, and the inadequate plumbing facilities. I see no reason why girls could not have occupied more cheerful surroundings in Massachusetts, Mower, and Lionel, and surely for such a short period I think that prices of rooms should...
Suggested improvements emphasized particularly the slipshodness of daily classes, the lack of eminent and interesting teachers "whose personality can often teach you more than his lectures," and the feed in the Union. Many remarked that there was a preponderance of intellectust entertainment and not enough social opportunity...
Twenty who took the questionnaire lightly made mention of the lack of a single speakeasy in Cambridge, the delicate looking women in the Yord, and the number of weird people who fit about the light of learning
...through the year. The College would like to see them succeed, but its facilities for aid, after all, are finite, and it cannot render assistance beyond its own resources. It is distressing to see these over-hopeful Freshmen obliged to drop out in the middle of the year for lack of funds, after having spent time and money for little more than disappointment and discouragement...