Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentrators' opinion that the department is the poorer for a lack of a group of outstanding elder men is important, but not sufficient cause for real concern. First, however regrettable such a lack, it is a fact, which could only be corrected by the importation of a number of men from the outside--a solution impractical for financial reasons. Second, the paucity of elder men of recognized stature is considerably compensated for by the further finding of the students that the department is fortunate in its number of younger men who combine to a gratifying extent the qualities of both...
...addition to these two men there is a pair of snappy quarter-milers in Albert Bates and Bert Graham, who are being prominently mentioned for the one-two spots in this meet. This event also is one of Harvard's weakest. Lack of strong quarter milers has been one of the things that have added grey hairs to Jaako's head this past winter...
...authentic skill of the novelist in choosing a theme likely to interest readers, in telling a story not in propria persona but through the words and actions of characters; in fact he has every gift to commend him to the reader's respect except greatness. The lack of that quality in Mr. Bontemps is serious, for he has chosen for the motif of his novel the events of a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800, and such a theme requires greatness. It is beside the point that greatness is still to seek nowadays, since the long-awaited and long-heralded...
...lack of sufficient white teachers the use of the English language is very limited and is nothing like what it should be after 35 years of American occupation. . . . Money expended per year, per pupil, $9.42. . . . The agricultural school . . . has not proven successful, the Samoan boys disliking hard work of farm life without pay, and remaining but a short time. . . . The experiment, therefore, has been abandoned. . . . Similarly a saw mill provided by the Department of Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable...
...bought from existing utilities. Individual farmers would be given five-year loans to wire their houses and install electric equipment. Of the $40,000,000 a year ($50,000,000 of RFC money the first year), half will be divided among the States in proportion to their present lack of rural electrification, the balance allocated by REAdministrator Morris L. Cooke where he thinks it can best be used. In ten years, it is officially hoped. 1,000,000 more farm homes will be electrified...