Word: lacking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late spring of each year the hay crop is harvested, and all the hay piled in neat little stacks. At a given signal the freshman class rushes out and sets are to each and every little stack-- provided, of course, the campus cops lack the necessary strength or vigilance. Then, true to Stanford's symbol, the In- dian, all freshmen cavort merrily around the fires. In the end, the entire class faces an assessment, which is always paid without a murmur. It's just another tradition...
Like many other stage plays converted to the screen, this production has a vigorous, staccato dialogue to atone for its lack of pictorial beauty. The smaller parts are on the whole excellently played. We like particularly Oscar Apfel as Editor Hinchcliffe. He regarded the words "scandal", "sex", and "sensational" with squeamishness; preferred saying "human interest...
...that no intelligence test, however searching, can assure the acceptance of only those men who have a full endowment of a good doctor's qualities. No matter how ready a student may be in grasping medical facts, no matter how skillful with the scalpel, he may and often does lack any feeling for the sociological side of his practice, any bent for an old-fashioned understanding of human nature. The old family doctor was a bit rough-and-ready in his obstetrics when he raced with the stork along snowy roads in a one-horse shay, but he knew something...
Revived last year after a lapse of nearly a decade occasioned by the lack of proper facilities, Harvard's swimming team had an unusually successful season for a new sport. Winning six out of eight meets, it lost only to Army by a small margin and to Yale by a rather large one. Coach Ulen spent the greater part of his time on Sophomores in order to build up a strong squad for future years, with the result that most of last year's team is back this season...
Speaking of the value of talking pictures as a supplement to lectures, W. H. Weston, Jr., Professor of Cryptogamie Botany and Chairman of the Department of Botany, said that lack of the desired type of films would hinder the frequent use of the machine for some years to come. Ordinary motion pictures will be shown almost exclusively for the present, pending the growth of a demand from colleges throughout the country sufficient to bring about the production of talks, for the study of academic subjects. There are, however, a few such films in existence and it is expected that these...