Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Paul, converted Jew, on Mars Hill, Athens, told assembled Jews, Epicureans, Stoics and rabble that "[God] . . . hath made of one blood all nations . . ." (Acts 18:26), some disbelieved. So did an unnamed Jew dying in London last week for lack of blood transfusion. Resolutely he preferred to die rather than let Gentile blood, available on the spot, sully the blood of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob...
...office as "The Street Singer" is the typical type of entertainment offered to the not so discriminating audiences in the middle west. To be sure the piece improves as time goes on: the second act being far superior, due possibly to the fact that one becomes accustomed to the lack of good music and absence of a good comic character, the musical comedy...
Because of the difficulties of unearthing latent talent, neither squad will be out before February 7. Conley states both squads lack 115-pound material. One hundred candidates have reported for the University squad and Conley expects 250 more...
...Meredith of Tufts and Jackson Colleges said yesterday that college failures are traceable to a deficient personality quotient, rather than to a lack of intelligence. Certainly the entrance examinations have weeded out a major portion of the intellectually unfit; the psychologic maladjustments quite common to the Freshman year are more often responsible for failure than stupidity. This is especially true at Harvard, a large college in a large city. Indifference may be a blessing to the strong, but it may prove Coventry to the first year student bewildered by the austerity and unapproachableness of the environment. And as physical condition...
...growth of the Cambridge School of the Drama has been gratifying to all those interested in the renaissance of dramatic instruction at Harvard. There have been many difficulties encountered and successfully overcome which have arisen from the awkward nature of dramatic expression. The lack of funds, however, has been the chief drawback to the development of the school, and with the situation now much better in this respect there is every reason to expect a substantial increase in the facilities for production and teaching...