Word: substandard
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...purchases, but few patriots were willing to turn in their hoards, even on the attractive official terms for payment. Civil defense measures were a joke, slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru a submachine...
Meredith took correspondence courses as a G.I., later attended the Negro Jackson State College in Mississippi, but decided that it was "substandard." Reared as a Methodist, he gradually evolved beliefs bordering on mysticism. "Everybody's worrying about life," he said. "But if I can't live this life then I don't have it. In my feeling, I'm already dead. I want to go to the university. This is the life I want. If I can get it then I have my life; if I don't then I might as well not have...
...organized an overriding ten-man "cabinet," including four vice chancellors. He launched a "vertical reorganization of the disciplines"-Litch-fieldese for uniting humanities, natural and social science as units serving all levels of the university. He weighed and tested the faculty for academic content, found one-third (250) substandard, including 16% with only a B.A. degree. The "low" men got no more raises. Today, with a 19% bigger faculty, 38% higher pay, and the first sabbaticals ever, only 42 profs are under par. The others, as one official put it succinctly, "shaped up or shipped out." Bright Image. Medicine...
...lady. This poetic pabulum somehow misses the tragic sense of life remembered from, say, Old Mother Hubbard or Three Blind Mice, and is, moreover, unchantable. Furthermore, those writing for today's young would not dream of mentioning a scandalous one-woman population explosion like Mother Hubbard and her substandard housing, and no farmer's wife would be allowed to behave so sadistically toward three handicapped mice...
...squabble over federal aid to education, especially to parochial schools, means only one thing: dangerous delay that will cause thousands of students to receive another year of substandard education...