Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employers, dreading idle needles in the boom season, tried to avert the strike, failed for lack of organization. Workers complained chiefly of "sweatshops" where girls worked as much as 60 hours per week for as little...
...could not quickly explain his evening's stroll. Within twelve hours 917 assorted characters were arrested, of whom 271 were found to have police records. Revolvers were taken from a score. Soon the police sieve began to leak. More than half of those arrested were released for lack of evidence. Bondsmen and police court lawyers buzzed busily to free the others. No. 1 gangsters captured: none...
...immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Said U. S. Critic Henry Louis Mencken to Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "Why, that book is full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and very influential. His books, however, lack the control of a great artist." Says Editor Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly)'. "In Ulysses Joyce made an original contribution to tragic literature, highly stimulating to conscious writers of subconscious fiction." Controversy still rages about whether or not Ulysses is really obscene. Joyce himself does not like dirty stories...
Earlier in the morning the two delegates from Brazil, whose prime interest is university administration, conferred with President Stratton, of M. I. T. President Stratton remarked that most universities in the United States lack sufficient organization. He said that the specialist is allowed ample freedom in what he teaches but that he is permitted, and demands, too much voice in the affairs of the university in which he is not well versed...
...examples of clever stick work were all that saved last night's encounter from being one of the season's dullest. The Cambridge coach, with Giddens back in harness, was obviously experimenting with his various forward line combinations, while the Boston team was handicapped by its lack of coordinated practice. The approaching tilts with the Yale sextet must still be regarded in the light of a rather mediocre record, despite the fact that many Crimson ice followers had hoped for a sudden reversal of form with the return of Giddens to the University lineup...