Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent discussion of educational problems has discerned itself with the grade and preparatory schools, as the sources of many defects in the system as a whole. The failure of American colleges to offer adequate training to students, and the lack of maturity in the students themselves, can be traced to the defective organization of the lower schools. Until that organization is strengthened, the efforts of the colleges, although they may eliminate various evils, will be like the attempt of a man to lift himself by his bootstraps...
...Will the governments of Europe again display the tremendous lack of will power which seems to paralyze them whenever they face this problem. , . .? The social and economic structure of Europe is steadily moving toward an abyss, and if it continues it will leave no alternative between repudiation of debts and chaos...
...oxygen tent? We have a 12-year-old boy here who's failing. . . . Operation for mastoid.'' Not one extra tent was there in all the dozen institutions. Patten Levings, son of the city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, would have to die for lack of oxygen-rich...
...time to take stock, and no stock to take. There is only the surpassing desire to make money with which to supply new creature comforts. And out of all this chaos comes a superb self satisfaction, a sophistication, an intolerance, a feeling of omnipotence, which is accompanied by a lack of self criticism, of sincerity, and above all of standards...
...sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack of any values, principles, of standards which can be relied upon when monetary support has been withdrawn...