Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more mature. Washington has been as cruel to him as to any President in history. And yet somehow, for all the heartbreak that has been his, Mr. Hoover has grown in inner stature. To strangers he may appear a beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental in its calm." No longer do his fingers drum a nervous tattoo on his chair arm or his eyes rove the floor. He talks in a low, steady, less querulous voice...
...present the proposed third-year course is barred by the familiar "lack of funds." When it becomes possible for the School to go ahead with the plan, it should be done. Enjoying already a high reputation for its technical business training, the School would deserve even wider prestige, if it encouraged future executives to study the basic problems which are too likely to be investigated only by economic theorists...
...students to their colleges, representative student government, and a reasonable distribution of all social activities of the student group have been minimized in the past. If students are to shoulder their own affairs, they should develop along well-defined lines, which will give them these things which they lack...
...Cambridge School of the Drama has brought at least one consolation. It has allowed the Harvard Dramatic Club to obtain the advantages of possessing a well-equipped theatre of its own without having to support it on box-office receipts. The Dramatic Club has always been hampered by lack of equipment and its choice of plays and frequency of production have been limited because of the necessity of financial return. Although the offer of the Rogers Building is only a temporary measure it may well lead to a permanent development on the part of the Dramatic Club...
...focusses attention on the dynamic character, who not long ago employed such belligerent methods to raise the price of oil in Oklahoma. Whatever his political qualifications, Governor Murray undoubtedly possesses personal characteristics of a type calculated to raise him in popular esteem. His vigorous denunciation of international banking may lack some of the elements of sound criticism, but it goes straight to the heart of the average man who is bewildered and a bit suspicious about where his money goes. The farmer, always seeking for a champion, sees in "Alfalfa Bill" the product of a western agricultural state...