Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...etymology of the word, "professor" means "teacher." It implies a gift of character, the ability to project to the student definite thought, supposedly provoking more definite thought. Lack of research admittedly results in mental impotence for the individual. The other extreme, a lack of intelligent, well prepared and constantly revised instruction can result only in mental sterility of the undergraduate body. Until promotions and appointments are based as much, and preferably a little more, on what the teacher has to offer his pupils, as on his imposing bibliography at the Harvard Coop, the first purpose of Harvard University is candidly...
...There is too much talk about disarmament in Europe today and too little actual disarming, with the result that the 12 years since the World War have seen a regrettable lack of progress toward real disarmament," declared Senator David I. Walsh in an interview at his home in Clinton on the eve of the Armistice Day holiday...
Hardest blow (apropos Prohibition): "We lack leadership. . . . When we get a leader, he lacks guts to follow the intention of the American people...
...only obstacle which stands in the way of a new infirmary is the lack of money. Harvard has provided housing facilities for her able bodied students. An extensive house plan has been created which will comfortably accommodate all men. The University should look to her students whether in sickness or in health. The estimated cost is six hundred thousand dollars which is not exorbitant when one considers that the price of the House Plan was fifteen million...
...Democratic stand on Prohibition did much to lift the party above their rather lack-lustre past for some years. The United States has been irked by the procrastination of the Republicans where this issue is concerned. The Democratic landslide was as much a search for remedies as an expression of public faith. The repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts may well cast its shadow on the national elections...