Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Britain's best educated youth are loath to enter the Church (average pay is ?400 annually: $2,000), there is no actual shortage of applicants. But there is a definite lack of funds to pay for their five to seven years of training. Hence the Church of England aims to distribute its clergy more evenly throughout its 13,775 parishes...
Colossal Mismanagement. Said Joy Elmer Morgan, chairman of Secretary Wilbur's radio education committee and editor of the Journal of the National Education Association: "There has not been in the entire history of the United States an example of mismanagement and lack of vision so colossal and far-reaching in its consequences as our turning of the radio channels almost exclusively into commercial hands." Since, he said, both radio and cinema portray "the trivial, the sensual, the jazzy . . . we are in vastly greater danger as a people from New Yorkism than from Communism...
Like many travelers they were ill-prepared for the worst. The worst was not piranhas (carnivorous fish), tarantulas, snakes, jaguars or hostile savages, but lack of water, of food. The stifling, steamy heat was bad but endurable; but once swarms of ihenni flies kept them sleepless for 90 hours. Their mules, exhausted by travel, were nearly finished off by vampire bats. One time Duguid, night-enveloped, riding the trail alone, was halted by two blazing eyes. He was sure it was a jaguar, but Siemel convinced him afterwards it must have been a couple of fireflies; no land animal...
...James' portrayal of the probable far future is scientific, full of romance, but not new. Nor is there radicalism nor lack of romance in the assertions of prominent dissenting scientists who say that matter is constantly being reincarnated out of pure radiation in the depth of space. But modern science has taught a vigorous doctrine of scopticism, the suspension of belief. And it is probable that Sir James has more definite scientific grounds for his statements than have his opponents for their more hopeful ones...
Rare indeed is the student strike which accomplishes thus easily its aim. The W. & J. students had protested against Dr. Baker's domineering methods, his "dress rules," his lack of sympathy with their athletic program. His capitulation last week was complete. Though ill health influenced his decision to resign, he said: "So far as the student body is concerned, I have tried to win their friendship but have been unsuccessful. Sometimes I think the fault is mine. . . . As a whole they are serious and well-behaved. . . . The faculty is an able group...