Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill, carrying funds of $93,700,000 necessary to maintain part of the army and other Government organizations; the Public Buildings bill carrying $125,000,000; the Alien Property Claims bill; the Disabled Emergency Officers Retirement bill; the Medicinal Liquor bill. (Although the Administration may be embarrassed by the lack of funds in some departments, it can, by shrewd management, make 95% of the year's appropriations run the Government until the 70th Congress meets in December...
Peroration. Through an interpreter M. Kerensky, who speaks no English, said: "I do not think the agents of Soviet Russia are fomenting trouble in Mexico or elsewhere in foreign countries. They lack the power to do so. ... I, myself, never think of a return to power. My episode is over. But I am continuing and will continue until the last the struggle for human freedom. . . .* Russians must settle their own internal affairs...
...weekly magazine which had already distinguished itself by its fatherly interest in collegiate affairs has just announced a series of articles on the "morality, or lack of morality, found in American colleges." The inevitable questionnaires have been sent out, asking if various misdemeanors, not unheard of in the world outside, have been observed within the academic walls. The American co-educational student, particularly, is dragged over the coals the faults of women are naturally more interesting to readers of the type who by now are familiar with the legend that the college man is a fur-coated rogue...
...every conceivable line, family life, associations, religious attachments as well as business. In observing their business progress, it is to see how they have utilized the knowledge of the trade they learned at the reformatory. "For of course," Dr. Glueck said, "many of these young men became criminals for lack of knowing anything else to do. On the other hand we find great numbers of the men, at the end of the five-year period back in jail somewhere or in an insane...
Many and various have been the theories as to the causes for these deaths. On them have been prepared general indictments of our whole psychology, philosophy, and social system. Clergymen lay the blame on materialism, lack of religious training, breakdown of family life. Others lay it to incomplete education, as evidence of the dangers of half-knowledge. Freudians smugly smile, and talk of repressions. There is a general "I told you so" air about them all. Whatever way it is regarded, though, the situation seems to cast reflection upon college education...