Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come and prices start up again, the public will jump in just as it did last time, though it is to be hoped that the movement can be kept within the bounds of reason when the next bull market really gets under way. The greatest danger lies in the lack of judgment on the part of the average speculator and investor. Mob psychology invariably rules the day, and the elemental principle that stocks are a much more attractive buy when low than when high has no effect in curbing the unbounded optimism of the American people, once the ball starts...
Yesterday disciplinary action was taken against eight students for stealing books from Widener Library. One of these men was charged with having taken thirteen volumes, an outstanding example of complete selfishness and lack of consideration. Unfortunately these eight students represent but a small fraction of the great number of men who have been taking books without signing for them at the rate of over two thousand a year...
...members of this year's Council, besides exhibiting naivety the equal of its predecessors' a year ago, are even more to be blamed, for they have failed to profit from experience. Already rumors are current of activities taking advantage of the Student Council's lack of foresight and judgment. Is it too early to disillusion those who may run next year's elections and suggest that space for signatures be included on the Student Council ballots in 1931, in accordance with the practice in force in all other class and college elections...
...unfortunate custom (selling their textbooks) seizes many undergraduates in January and June. Thomas Arkle Clark, Dean of Men of the University of Illinois, gives two reasons for these seasonal outbreaks: first, the student's indifference or lack of interest in his work, and second, his need to get out of a financial difficulty...
Most respectable memoirs are dull: this one is no exception. Abundant with annotation and anecdote, Mrs. Hardy's work is a boon to Hardy scholars, a bore to lay readers. Only relieving element in the volume is the biographer's charitable lack of sentimentality...