Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York passed an enforcement act, it repealed its excise laws for liquor regulation. When in 1923 it repealed the same act, its statutes were left bare of authority to cope with the saloon. In many a state last week governors announced they would not tinker their local laws?or lack of them?until the 18th Amendment was repealed...
...watched Baritone Lawrence Tibbett impersonate Simone Boccanegra, a 14th Century doge whose life was thoroughly cluttered with political intrigues, kidnappings, poisonings. The audience, Mr. Gatti knew, would make little effort to follow the complicated plot. The few powerful, cumulative moments in the music would not make up for the lack of familiar, fetching tunes. But Simone Boccanegra suited Mr. Gatti for the season's opening opera. His hero Verdi wrote it. It is spectacular. The first act might be slow but at least the scene in the big council chamber would be impressive, where Tibbett stills a riot...
...author of a recent book entitled "Sports," writing in this month's Atlantic Monthly, airs the subject of the decline of interest in football and comes to the conclusion that "Football's Day is done." The Boston Herald, in an editorial printed elsewhere on this page, attributes the apparent lack of interest in the sport this fall to the effects of the depression rather than to the beginning of the end of football. It declares that, were the price of admission to the college football game less forbidding, there would be the same crowds as heretofore...
...explanation of every phenomenon of the present day is, of course, the depression. Lack of money is in a large part responsible for better marks. An empty purse removes that itching urge to waste golden hours at the theatre or in the more flamboyant dance halls. There are fewer of the enormous coming-out parties which prove such a drain on the time of undergraduates. The increased competition for scholarships has had a most salutary effect...
...time work, which prevents the student from getting the maximum profit out of his college course. Unlike scholarships, which are rigidly restricted to men of dean's list standing, loan funds are available for all students, thereby breaking the vicious circle encountered by many men who find that the lack of a scholarship compels them to do outside work, while that same work, by affecting their grades, injures their chances of getting a scholarship...