Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Trainer nor Ticknor is a physical giant; they both weigh around 190 and stand approximately six feet tall, but what they lack in bulk they amply make up for in strength and stamina. In all these qualities the one is very nearly the exact counterpart of the other, a fact which makes their play very similar and renders it impossible to rate one above the other on merit...
...present there is nothing quite so vague as the House Plan. Reduced to its simplest definition it will be an attempt to continue, to a greater or less degree according to how well it works, the conditions under which the Freshmen supposedly live at present. The lack of social life in the upper class dormitories is going to be corrected by the erection of a group of buildings, divided into separate units in which the upper classmen will live. These individual units will have highly organized activities which are being worked out at present by Professors Greenough and Coolidge...
Because of the lack of an adequate appropriation, there are now only seven paid probation employed in only seven out of 90-odd district courts throughout the country. These seven paid probation officers have proven their worth many times over. They are appointed by the district judges under whom they but have to pass a special civil service examination. All of them are trained, experienced men in the work. Their duties are to investigate and report to the judges on offenders convicted but not yet sentenced by the court. They investigate the home conditions previous history and real character...
Cults. Belonging to a cult is an evidence of abnormal mentality, found Smith's William Sentman Taylor. Belonging "reveals simplicity and mental inertia, the tendency to follow leaders and crowds, lack of critical faculty, especially experimental...
With such intimate revelations, Col. Theodore Roosevelt III (the late great Roosevelt was II) has come to the defense of the U. S. home, the U. S. family. His method is that of personal intramural reminiscence. Detecting a certain lack of home consciousness in his country, he finds that "It has become fashionable among certain silly people to rail at this greatest of civilized institutions-the family. This is merely a method of attracting attention to themselves...