Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little more study of the problems of the world under world-known figures such as John R. Mott, Dr. T. Z. Koo, Kirby Page, and others, would make us citizens of more vision, perhaps, but of less ignorance and lack of interest. Daniel B. Dorman...
...your columns of Monday's CRIMSON was an article on the Buffalo Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement. You termed it a congress of students interested in "pleasing intellectual exercises" and in visionary idealism. As excuses for the American student's lack of interest in political and international affairs, you claimed that the "land is too comfortable" and that no great oppression is taking place. "The issues are too prosaic to merit opposition or support of armed force...
...constructive plans, a close examination of their substance reveals that they are designed primarily to preserve the situation, with its high prices and inflated values, which existed at the height of the post-war boom. It is assumed that this situation is essential to prosperity and that only lack of confidence has destroyed...
...When lack of consumers' demand in the spring of 1929 made readjustment inevitable, the country's leaders with one accord fought liquidation and put forth all sorts of schemes to prevent it. The credit corporations propose to make frozen assets good by rediscounting credit which never should have been extended in the first place and by waiting for land values to rise. The Administration should realize that farm land may never regain its old value, that assets which are depreciated now may always remain so, and that the position of the price level has little effect upon prosperity...
...Drama must suspend its activities at the end of the present term can only be regretted. Although the school has far from fulfilled the expectations cherished at the time of its establishment, it has offered a chance for study in a field neglected by the University. And the lack of cooperation which the University has given the organization is likewise deplorable...