Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's argument against the nomination of Hoover, as expressed by A. E. Phillips '34, Leo Srole '33, and D. M. Sullivan '32 in Lowell House last night, was the thesis of Hoover's inability to keep his campaign pledges, and his general lack of qualifications for the position. The Blue speakers dwelled on the courage he has shown in face of unusually difficult circumstances...
...that many of their best oarsmen are slightly overweight, but with not enough pound advantages to give them a berth in the heavyweight shells. The Division 1 rights three in number, contain many men who may prove good heavyweight and 150-pound material later in the season, but who lack experience now. Division 2 is largely composed of Freshmen who have never rowed before this spring. Approximately 120 first year men are now rowing in shells, while there are many who are working their way up from wherries to singles, so that altogether about 180 oarsmen are using Weld boat...
...once mere provokes a consideration of that body's usefulness. That its functions are not of vital importance is attested by the slight interest taken in the election of members, on an average of only 35 per cent of the undergraduate body casting ballots. The chief reason for this lack of interest is that there is small need in Harvard for the Student Council as it now exists...
Thus, with parables perverted, did William Bushnell Stout, designer and builder of Ford tri-motor planes, last week in Aviation magazine castigate the airplane industry for its lack of ingenuity and inventiveness. In the same tenor in the same magazine two years ago Designer Stout, long a gadfly of the industry, observed that no plane had been produced as efficient per horsepower as the original Wright kite-like biplane. Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow...
...revived its practice of loaning framed reproductions of pictures to undergraduates who desired them for personal use. The opportunity offered was not announced or advertised, however, and the students knew nothing of it. Hence the Museum has lent only two pictures this year, and now seizes on this apparent "lack of interest" as an excuse for discontinuing the service...