Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...root of the dispute lies in the lack of sympathy between the above-mentioned gentlemen, and the institution which they attack. Neither of them has much love for institutional discipline. I know one personally, and the other by literary repute (as most authors are known). Both are clever, and "plastic", but neither is plastic to the type of formative discipline which they attack...
...local time, but taking trains by Standard Time; omitted to state if inconvenienced. Chief Justice Taft, humorous, discreet, expressed inability to see where any hardships were imposed by the present system; more specifically found that no penalties were carried by it under the law; dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction...
When President Ernest Bartels of the Landtag announced the first reading of the bill, the Communists rose, en masse, shouting: "Traitor! Tool of tyrants! Bootlicker of the Hohenzollerns! . . ." Amid pandemonium the Communists sought to introduce a motion of lack of confidence against Prussian Premier Otto Braun (Socialist). When this motion was defeated and the Hohenzollern bill passed its second reading 210 to 38 the Communists forced a five minute suspension of the Landtag by their shouts of rage and dispersed to plan a filibuster by violence...
...game notable for its lack of scoring opportunities Purdue and Wisconsin swept up and down an Indiana field all afternoon and left two goose-eggs on the scoreboard...
...Bradley" himself, despite a certain lack of ingenuousness that inevitably marks confessions in the Occident, remains a frenzied, consumptive paranoiac, self-immolated for revenge upon Barbarism, babbling as he waits for death that the grey bones of New England babies became fertilizer for the prairie soil; that the Puritans, nurtured on illusion, are wild asses run amuck when illusion has withered. Whoever he is, he once wrote (44) a novel and sent it to the late Walter Hines Page, who returnee it with the gentle words: "Either I am pretty crazy...