Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unofficially permitting the Philadelphia Inquirer to state that Pennsylvania and the South would probably get the next appointments to the Commission. Senator Reed, after repudiating frivolous charges of "A deal, a deal!" announced that he would vote for the New York man. Southern Democrats, with the usual lack of leadership in the Senate, decided for the most part to do the same. Furthermore, the South had been somewhat mollified by the appointment of Richard V. Taylor of Mobile, Ala., to the place of a Commissioner who had suddenly resigned. Mr. Woodlock's appointment was confirmed...
...words a day. Should the Japanese Government ratify an agreement recently placed before it by the officials of the Radio Corporation of America the volume of news carried will almost certainly double many times. Since one of the chief obstacles to U. S.-Japanese accord has been the lack of mutual understanding fostered by the absence of cheap and-rapid intercommunication, the progress of this development is eagerly awaited...
...professors, and three instructors, all giving their full time to the school. For these 22 fulltime teachers there are available 16 office rooms, 12 in Langdell Hall and four in Austin Hall, and 18 stack cubicles, 13 in Langdell Hall and five in Austin Hall. Not only do they lack office rooms for all teachers, but the necessity of providing for graduate students has largely crowded the teachers out of the stack cubicles. There ought to be an office convenient to the ilbrary stacks and a stack cubicle for each teacher, in addition to provision of stack cubicles for graduate...
...ground cannot doubt that the Law School is maintaining its prestige under difficulties. According to the contemplated improvements, Langdell Hall would be enlarged, an administration building constructed and new professorships established. However, no increase in the student body would ensue. The definite avowal of this emphasizes both the present lack of facilities and a determination not to sacrifice thoroughness to apparent progress...
...Nineties, the Naughty Nineties, the Nineties of the Yellow Book, these things were done well, these clever plays without any raison d'etre except their devilish cleverness. But in the decade of grace 1920-30 we seem to lack the flair. So it is small wonder that a play like "The Circle", which the Repertory players are presenting this week, should prove too much for its author, Somerset Maugham...