Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people. In humble desperation he went a-walking with gay Betty Wing, and the villagers trooped back to church, "for a little wickedness do make a lot of talk." These 26 short stories show Powys' sympathy for pastoral paganism; show too his awareness that bucolic simplicity does not lack subtlety, that country kindliness contains a broad streak of country cruelty...
...personalized for the pupil. If it is to be of any value to him. Similarly, it is taking an unfair view of Detroit City undergraduates to assert wrong headedness on their side in failing to react to sports, dances, debates, and plays. What we do berate, however, is their lack of the initiative displayed by the students of the University of Wisconsin, not long ago, who petitioned the authorities for a drastic revision of the activities program...
Whereas these raw gobbets and undigested morsels of knowledge floated by this too sudden immerston in the Pierian Springs are unpleasant to see hartily regurgitated over a cup of coffee. Whereas a three hour examination can only serve to uncover the lack of knowledge rather than its presence. Wheres these examinations are thus only methods to jam the wind-pipes of the unwilling. Whereas the resulting mental dyspopsis has never yet produced a Carlyle and Whereas, dyspopsis or no dyspopsis, everyone is pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone...
Part of the confusion is due to lack of frankness. The public schools do not say what they really think of business: business leaders and it necessary to talk of the public schools in the phrases of traditional but often exaggerated respect. In the interests of a better understanding we shall state in this and other articles some of the hindrances we have found to the enlistment of a larger number of public school boys...
Although Yale has announced that it will keep its baseball coach off the bench again this year, Harvard will discontinue the plan given a trial last year. The lack of experience and the inability of the players to fathom problems that require years of connection with the sport were given as reasons for Harvard's decision to put Coach Fred Mitchell back on the bench. Yale athletic authorities declared that the coach-less plan deserved another year's trial, and it will be used in all games expect the four played in the South during spring recess...