Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case. The academic side of a university does not receive the publicity that other phases do. Occasionally this is caused by the unwillingness of a specific department to broadcast its findings, believing that the interested parties will soon learn of its progress. But almost without, exception the lack of publicity can be attributed to another reason--there is no glamour for the public in the reading of scientific achievements. Sports and social events have always made a greater general appeal. To the majority of readers these news items are more personal, whereas the advances that scholars have made are "caviar...
...surprising that the Washington authorities should even want to discourage such liberal movements as socialism or communism, whatever their opinion of the intrinsic value of such movements may be. It is absurd, however, for them to attempt a deliberate suppression of liberal groups. Their action shows a lack of understanding and sympathy with the human being which does not do Washington much credit...
...have eaten in the Union all winter and seen no signs of the failure upon which the authorities base their decision to close the place. The common rooms have been well filled. There has been no lack of men to fill the easy chairs, use the chess tables, the pool rooms, the magazine racks, or the library. The dining rooms have always seemed well patronized. One must usually wait one's turn at the barber shop...
Administration. "Faculty dictates are frequently enforced with just as much asperity and lack of balance as the orthodox zealot ever displayed in roasting a witch...
...great passion is for one, Sam Lee, the very respectable and eligible young gentleman whose lack of response arouses the old go-getting blood of the Wagners of soap fame. Suddenly she discovers that this object of her advances is a prince of the ancient house of Lee Ying and it is all off. The ninety-nine and fourty-four hundredths per purity must be saved at all events, so she preserves the Wagner dignity by beating Mr. Ying with a riding crop. Of course such an intolerable condition can't exist for long and a reconcilliation is reached...