Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm conviction that there is more hope for the progress of true ideals in the modern world from a nation even newly rich than there is from a nation chronically poor. Honest poverty is one thing, but lack of industry and character is quite another. While we do not need to boast of our prosperity or vaunt our ability to accumulate wealth, I see no occasion to apologize...
With a remarkable lack of foresight regarding congestion of traffic the anchorites laid down the following ordinance that required more vigilance and a nice ability to measure distances rapidly. "When a Freshman is near a Gate or Door belonging to College or College Yard he shall look around and observe whether any of his Superiors are coming within three rods he shall not enter without a signal to proceed. In passing up or down stairs or through an entry or any other narrow passage if a Freshman meets a superior he shall stop and give way leaving the most convenient...
...there is a much more homely and rational explanation. With the Business School so new-and-all there is a lack of telephone service, to the annoyance of the students. The telephone company, pitying the case of the men unreasonably deprived of the voice with a smile, has installed two pay-telephones on two telephone-poles across the street...
Hearst Editor Brisbane, ever as quick to deplore the lack of U. S. air preparedness as he is to laud his political hero, Calvin Coolidge, deftly interwove these two fetishes into a neat parable last week...
...rapid multiplication of the Antelope Island buffalo herd from a few head in 1885 to 300 this year, surprised conservationists. The explanation was found more in the good food supply than the lack of molestation. Food supply is a far greater factor in conserving game than are refinements upon the already adequate protective legislation.* Contrary to popular belief, the migratory game birds of the U. S. are not diminishing but increasing, according to the U. S. Biological Survey. This fact lately led Editor Clark Adams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, himself a keen hunter, to pen an article...