Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World (International Film Foundation) is an intelligent and heterogeneous compilation of newsreel shots on such matters as the War, Prohibition, U. S. Crime, Disarmament Conferences, Gandhi, Mussolini, Hoover. Hitler, the Japanese at Shanghai. Its grandiose title is meaningless and misleading. The picture is improved by its lack of a theme; the pleasure of watching it is analogous to that of reading the headlines of old newspapers. Good shots: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. looking out of his window; Mahatma Gandhi with one finger on his nose; Mrs. Charles H. Sabin denouncing Prohibition; Manhattan police riding their horses into a crowd...
...custom of the Club to present a play annually, and the productions were famed for their excellence. In 1900 "Agamemnon" won the admiration of all classicists the National Students League in partichere and in Europe; even the celebrated Professor R. C. Jebb of Cambridge University praised the performance. But lack of funds has prevented several of the annual productions, and interest in them has waned...
...students often fails to meet the fact. At Harvard the House Plan, the tutorial system, and custom combine to bring most upperclassmen into contact with members of the faculty with whom they may become acquainted. Yet "staff tables," in the dining halls, the reticence which afflicts some students, and lack of opportunity prevent many undergraduates from knowing those men by whose advice and help they would most profit...
...crew is being coxswained by F. W. Burnham 2G.B., a veteran of Harvard and Cambridge crews of the past, and is stroked by C. McK. Norton 3L, both of whom are graduate students included in the crew at the last minute, because of a lack of Faculty members willing to join the enterprise...
...Gigli has during the current season profited from the sacrifice which we have made to keep the Metropolitan going and is again trying to get his full salary at the expense of all of us who are reducing our respective salaries. We protest against Mr. Gigli's lack of co-operation and esprit de corps...