Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some months the lack of confidence felt by Belgian bankers and industrialists in the Belgian Finance Ministry has been made manifest by their refusal to cooperate with Premier Poullet's Cabinet in its efforts to stabilize the franc, which has been steadily declining...
...Pennsylvania 5, Columbia 4, California 4, Syracuse 3, Cornell 2, Dartmouth 2, Mass. Inst. of Tech. 2, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Maine and Bowdoin, 1 each When the first I. C. A. A. A. A. meet was held in Saratoga in 1876 the athletes turned in meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot-putters and hammer throwers were not so well defined...
...present site was suggested last fall, but lack of a definite decision from the Planning Board kept the work from being started at that time. It was also felt that if the erection of the building had been started last autumn, the work of construction would have interfered with the crowds of people attending the football games in the Stadium...
That the result can be understood as a vote of lack of confidence in the Coolidge faction which Senator Pepper represented is perhaps dubitable. Although the Secretary of the Treasury backed the Senator, Mr. Coolidge held off his official support until the last moment. The insurgent Republicans have never been strong in the Keystone State and whatever reaction exists can probably be interpreted as the traditional mid-term anti-administration threat...
...simple and retiring soul who feels the lusts of the flesh coming over him is the central character. The title has no lack of support: at least seven times in the first act he is told that, you know, he is exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in an ingenious diversion of ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like...