Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superficiality is occasionally relieved by a clever twist in the narration of witticisms. But the recurring lapses into distasteful English, the omission of significant detail, a complete lack of spontaneity, and lengthy debate as to the relative merits of secondary sources are inexcusable. When Mr. Cooper states that "Danton did not attain even to the Tammany definition of an honest man," when he asserts that Talleyrand "took no open part" in the controversy of the Three Estates of 1789, when he commits the flagrant sin of perpetrating anti-climactic epigrams, it is time to call a halt...
...association of Grand Rapids furniture with gaudiness and lack of taste reflects wrongfully upon the standing of the product in industry and indicts the judgment of the thousands of American people who regard their Grand Rapids furniture as a cultural enrichment of their homes. Grand Rapids, for more than a half century, has set the furniture styles of this country...
...nice talent in painting, emerged from the shadow of the Empire's shrine into the spotlight of world news. When a petition was started to give the late great John Galsworthy an Abbey burial Dean Norris was "forced regretfully to decline." Unofficial reason given was lack of space. Last week came to light a speech by Dr. Norris before the Architectural Association in which the artist-dean advocated clearing most of the present memorials out of the Abbey and storing them somewhere to make room for the newly or truly, great. Excerpts...
...attractive activity. To the student who is not genuinely interested in argumentative speaking, or who is not intent on improving his own forensic ability, without going through at course in Public Speaking, the Varsity Debating Council offers little appeal. The organization is decidedly hampered by the lack of any permanent home or the use of any satisfactory auditorium. Although the Corporation gives the Council two hundred dollars annually, the sum, while generous, fails to cover much more than administrative expenses; consequently the activities of the Council are, for the most part, limited to Boston, and its vicinity. The fact that...
Although it is natural for the H.A.A. to be unwilling to discuss its policy, or rather lack of policy, in regard to past cases, it is inexcusable for it not to declare straightforwardly what its policy will be in the future. The H.A.A. owes it to every undergraduate to make its position clear on this point...