Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some teachers are uncritical themselves . . . lack high standards of dress." (Let them read style magazines, take special courses, gaze into mirrors...
...most marked features in the inadequacy of the Infirmary is the lack of accommodations for the nurses and maids, many of whom are obliged to find rooms as best they can outside. This makes it impossible to maintain a proper supervision and protection...
...operating rooms, wards and private rooms for twice as many patients as can now be accommodated; the main building, it is thought, would with minor changes suffice for the administration offices and for the nurses' and maids' quarters. To move the present contagious wing, a step that the lack of available land would necessitate, would cost $100,000. The cost of a new building is estimated...
...that Harvard has actually taken the lead in stepping off the edge, there is some chance that Yale might follow. The old argument about our not wanting to be the only ones will no longer hold water. The question of being handicapped by lack of practice will lack importance in one of our most vital contests. The advantages of scrapping the Spring sessions have been too often enumerated to bear repetition. The most important consideration in this case is that such a move would fall in line with the new retrenchment policy, which favors informality rather than gate receipts...
Next morning Disciple Madeline Slade, daughter of a deceased British Admiral, hastily washed all the Mahatma's loin cloths, so that he might not lack fresh ones in jail. Meanwhile leading British and Indian merchants and businessmen peppered the Viceregal Court with telegrams, cables. They reminded Lord Willingdon that Mahatma Gandhi's arrest would mean a trade loss of millions of dollars to the Empire, since it would unquestionably provoke a fresh Indian boycott of British goods. Even the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, George Lansbury, successor to James Ramsay MacDonald as Parliamentary Leader of the Labor Party...