Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precedent to face, along with a past unmistakably indicating a waning interest in a Junior dance, the action of the present Committee is very intelligent. Traditions, if it is possible to classify this function in this already crowded category, depend upon popular approval for their existence, and the lack of this approval is the ultimate cause for the present situation...
...book was offered to the library some time ago by a London bookseller, but the Law School had to refuse it because of lack of funds. It will be put in a safe with the collection of rare publications...
Inasmuch as yesterday's announcement of the proposed federation of the liberal political clubs of the university makes public the disinterest of the undergraduates in political discussion, and reveals the inability of the Liberal Club, as at present constituted, to maintain itself satisfactorily in the face of this lack of support, it seems but fair to call to the attention of those officers of the Liberal Club who go out of office this week, discouraged at their apparent failure, the significance of the Scott Nearing luncheon yesterday...
Disjointed and disconnected, the plot results in a welter of many unequal scenes. The sentencing of the miner, Hagon Derk, to death for a murder which he has not committed, has power and introduces the play well; but the following scenes, lack corresponding conviction--the "wild party" is only amusing, the accident to the child has some pathos, the wedding of the rich girl and the condemned criminal in his "death-cell" is made impressive by the guitar playing of another prisoner and by the hammering on the gallows outside. The mere listing of the scenes shows how many stage...
...from about 110,000 in 1899-1900 to about 900,000 in 1927-8. The number of institutions with a minimum endowment of $2,000,000 is about 100. If the American people are not the best educated in the world, certainly the fault is not due to a lack of facilities. The states have been most liberal, and wealthy Americans, from John D. Rockefeller down, have lavished millions on the intellectual training of our boys and girls...