Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eheu, these are sorry times indeed when the nitred vaults for lack of love must be thrown open and the choicest vintage blazoned on bill boards. But perhaps before the exquisite measures of learned Flaccus die completely from the ears of men, there will be a new Renaissance which will save the attic treasures without resort to abasing vulgarity...
...Harvard Debating Council has met many difficulties in arranging intercollegiate debates. Lack of funds has made trips to other colleges practically impossible and meager audiences have discouraged intercollegiate debates when held here. The University Council is no longer an integral part of undergraduate life, a re-direction of Harvard debating will be necessary to make...
Although the new plan cannot be put completely into effect next year, due both to lack of men and the necessary financial advance, it is instituted with the idea in mind of attaining the goal as soon as it is practicable and possible...
...fact that America is not represented in the meetings and that her interests may therefore be conviently disregarded leads participants to express foreign claims with a sympathy and enthusiasm that might easily prejudice their subsequent attitude toward American rights and demands. Such a lack of appreciation for national sentiment is apparent throughout all the negotiations and accounts in, large measure for the character of the conclusions. This fact, coupled to the mechanical ease with which those decisions are reached, must inevitably give rise to a mistaken conception in the minds of participants as to the true nature of international negotiations...
There can be little doubt that there is a sad lack of coordination in the practical applications of the sciences of law and medicine. One has only to examine the administration of local and state health departments. The shyster settlements of insurance claims, and the frequent examples of the inexpert application of medicine to criminal cases bear witness to the urgent need for men competent to act with knowledge and experience in both departments...