Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of 1947, a small group of movie enthusiasts drew up extensive plans to establish a student film colony and club. Until that time, Harvard's undergraduate organizations had limited themselves to such fields as drama and journalism. Now, despite an apalling lack of funds or equipment, a bunch of artistic upstarts decided it was time to delve into a new medium...
...second short opus. "Alien Corn" would like to be a bit of tragedy. A young man, frustrated in his sole ambition of becoming a concert pianist, takes his life. Here one of Mr. Maugham's vices creeps in. Lack of depth of emotion allows this piece to deteriorate to the level of a tabloid suicide at the end, though the whole thing is done with rich piano accompaniment, to be sure...
...given as many printing jobs as possible to one printing firm. As it was, different Council committees had their printing done by more than a dozen different shops often without trying to find the least expensive printer; frequently without obtaining previous authorization by the Council or its treasurer. Similar lack of organization occurred in the typing, mimeographing, and printing of letters and reports...
...Lack of financial foresight by some members of the 1948-49 Council has created a serious situation as a new Council starts its year. Attention to economy moves like these suggested above can help this new Council to get back on more solid ground and to stay there in the future...
Until now, he added, little has been done with discriminate functions when it is desired to split the population into three or four parts. The lack of progress is mainly due to the very heavy computational work that would be associated with proper formulation of such a problem. As modern computing machinery becomes available to scientists, Mosteller stated, they will no longer be so reluctant to formulate problems which require heavy computation...