Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended meetings of the Union Debating Society dissipates before the University's stony refusal either to appropriate money for an adequate coaching staff for upperclassmen, or to assign Public Speaking instructors to a task essentially within their province. Thus the traditional coma of Harvard debating is due not to lack of undergraduate interest, but to official indifference...
...declared that the delay is caused by the distance the chasers must go, and not, as the Monthly claimed, by lack of enough workers to meet the demand...
...golden days of clipper ships the U. S. has never had a consistent shipping policy. Nor was it settled by the Maritime Act of 1936, for, as Mr. Kennedy points out, there are still three alternatives: 1) continuation of the subsidy program, which promises to bog down for lack of private capital, 2) Government ownership and private operation, or 3) straight Government ownership and operation. In other great maritime nations the course for Government domination of shipping is clearly charted. Mr. Kennedy seems to feel without saying so that a merchant marine, being today essentially an instrument of National policy...
Many U. S. music schools (e.g., Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman) maintain their own student orchestras. Yet, when new graduates of these schools try to get jobs with first-rate orchestras, they are generally turned away for lack of experience. In 1920, a red-headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony...
...thing that bothered serious, 29-year-old Leo Calvin Rosten all the while he was working for a doctorate of political science & economy at the University of Chicago was the nation's lack of critical interest in the Washington press corps. It seemed ironic to Mr. Rosten that "we have been more concerned with the talents of men who incarcerate animals in public pounds, than with those of the men who have the license to disseminate information about the political order under which we live...