Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show twice as many alumni givers as public givers but an average public gift 75 per cent, higher than the average alumni gift." Who are these public givers who play so "important a giving part"? Deponent sayeth not. Yet they can only be successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation of this were lacking, it would be supplied by the fact that "the appeal for stadia" so potent with the loyal graduate...
...before the war by Germany. Can you, by any stretch of memory, recall if there was not the slightest tendency toward jingoism in that nation? If the representative nobles, commonly known here as war-lords, scorned to egg the government on, or the war-trained people displayed a marked lack of enthusiasm...
...Girl mothers are dying like flies in Egypt and Persia through the lack of necessary legislation. In other countries girls are denied equal opportunities for education. Again, in many countries women are having a terrific fight for the vote. Yet the Woman's Party would make the issue of equal industrial rights of paramount importance under such conditions. It is ridiculous...
...have consecrated my life service to the kings of Prussia and the former kaisers. I consider this referendum a great injustice. It shows a lack of sentiment for German traditions...
...Still less often does such a coach resign in midseason, without any premonitory public rumbling of trouble. Yet when Edward A. Stevens, head rowing coach at Harvard, resigned last week, with the Yale race at New London only three weeks off, he gave as reason only the cryptic statement: "Lack of co-operation on the part of the crew . . ." His resignation was accepted. Next day Herbert H. Haines, coach of the freshman crews, was appointed in his place...