Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their ability to obtain high grades at school, and to pass the comparatively simple requirements of the college boards. Little attention is paid to a student's ability to adjust himself to a new scholastic standard, to a new intellectual, social and moral environment. Too many men who lack sufficient moral and mental stability, arrive at college, and because they are unprepared to cope with entirely different conditions, they often are ruthlessly "flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures, and the stigma that being "flunked out" puts upon them often develops...
Just as the total lack of scenery calls for considerable Imaginative response on the part of the spectator, so the extreme sentimentality of the play and its absorption in commonplace people call for a good deal of sympathetic for bearance. The necessary imagination is very easily mustered by everyone, and most of the audience, although by no means all, find the called-for-interest and compassion forthcoming...
Since your new color-picture policy, I note no lack of "newsworthiness" in your weekly subjects so I should like to ask if a new improved color process has made for speedier use of color plates...
...admittedly objectionable character of these features is, in our opinion, attributable to the lack of a proper conception of the high standards required for a broadcast program intended for reception in the homes, schools, automobiles, religious, social and economic institutions, as well as clubs, hotels, trains and other places, reaching in the aggregate a much larger number of people daily than any other means of communication and carrying its message to men, women and children of all ages...
Profesor Zimmerman added that this condition is not the result of any single political party, and is "really due to the lack of judgement of our intellectual classes...