Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to make the ballot valid, the requisite number of candidates for each office must be voted for. This means that one choice must be marked for Secretary, two for the Class Committee, seven for the Class Day Committee, and five for the Album Committee. Any ballots which lack the proper number of votes will be thrown...
...With the exhaustion of War stocks and the lack of adequate appropriations, military equipment is running low. There are not even enough horses and mules. Under the six-field-army plan, 548,892 animals are required. On June 30, only 48,597 were on hand, and 12,000 of those were too old for field service...
...their sale. He contributes a scholarly monograph on the mashing situation in New York. He writes thrillingly of "The Unique Hold-Up of a Taximan's Pants." And never for a moment is he serious, even inadvertently. He sometimes fails also to be funny, but not for lack of trying. It is that straining for effect that is Mr. Sullivan's chief fault. We are led to feel that the author is trying very, very hard to make us laugh; and we are inclined to be annoyed that he should deem such excessive efforts necessary
...life. It is needless for me to say how different this is from the American college. I think it is too intellectualized and neglects much of the emotional and spiritual aspects of life. But it does give a thoroughness and accuracy or knowledge which our young people so often lack. I would not be understood to advocate driving out of the American college the extra curricular activities that play so large a part in its life and, no doubt, help to develop the self-reliance and initiative which characterize so many young American college graduates. But I do insist that...
...Copley Company has found another vehicle for dramatic expression in this truly funny English farce, "Tons of Money." No Boston audience, no Copley audience could be offended by this farce, which is thoroughly English in its lack of risque gallicisms...