Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure of the dry representatives to conform to this change of heart must be attributed to the incurable timidity of the political mind. Having once gone on record in favor of Prohibition, most of them lack courage to recognize the inevitable, and they take comfort in the hope that economic issues will over-shadow all others in the coming elections. Possibly the more realistic among them, hearing the applause for the wets which burst from the gallery, felt a less purblind confidence in the issue. The hedgers and straddlers of a dead decade are now once more on the fence...
Prayers & Sympathy. In Pasadena, Calif. Albert Einstein said he thought kidnapping showed a lack of "social sanity." Law-abiding Londoners, aghast at a crime directed against "the American approximation of the Prince of Wales," could not understand why a Prince of Wales would leave his much-publicized infant unguarded. President Ortiz Rubio ordered the Mexican Army to watch the border for the kidnappers. The Changchow Merchants' Guild of Peiping sent sympathy. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York ordered his flock to pray for the infant's safe return. School children and 500,000 Companions of the Forest of America also...
...regrettable experience to watch the unfolding of such a ridiculous and pointless story, under direction that indicates a total lack of dramatic perception on the part of James Whale. Better luck next week...
...year along with every other "Prosperity technique." Education, in so far as it functions as a business corporation, has been made efficient but essentially it still struggles under a dead weight of waste effort and administrative red-tape. The greatest source of waste in the educational machine is the lack of integration between school and college...
...House athletics, the innovation presages a new era in intra-mural rowing. House crew practice has hitherto been characterized by annoying confusion. Coaching has been in the hands of one man and his part time assistant; second and third crews have received little attention; due to indifference and lack of organization seatings have seldom remained intact more than a week. The Eliot House plan will help to remove these discouraging handicaps. If crews are coached by one man and able to maintain a reasonable permanence in their personnel, a valuable esprit de corps will appear. The new plan will...