Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chancellor Streeruwitz, until recently an active businessman (textiles), listened uncomfortably to the anxious shopkeepers, then called a conference of his Ministers. From this Cabinet session came an announcement that "the misgiving noted in economic circles at home and alarming reports in the newspapers lack justification." It was announced that in the future Schutzbund and Heimwehr demonstrations will not be allowed in the same city on the same...
...degree. Their number is small because not one Southern college offers them training. They must travel north for education. That entails an expense which few Negresses can afford. Scholarships help them out. Belle Davis, judicial-minded executive secretary of the National Health Circle for Colored People, explained the southern lack of nurse training: "The neglect of health is not so much unfairness and prejudice of the white toward the Negro as it is a complete lack of interest. This condition exists not only among the Negroes but among the whites as well. The climate, of course, has something...
...onetime Director of the Permanent Mandates Commission, League of Nations, protested against the Kellogg Pact, objecting to "uncertainty as to what it prohibits and what it permits, the absence of any indication as to the nature of the 'pacific means' which are to be substituted for War, lack of any provision for violation...
...lack of a reliable guide book was met last Fall through publication by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin of a very complete tourist guide titled All About Hawaii, very amply illustrated with photographs, maps and tables, carrying also historic and contemporary facts and statistics...
...English-Russian tournament in England this spring and finished in a tie for second place. Miss Menchik lost her first two games in the Carlsbad tournament. It is safe to say that whatever victories she wins will be well earned, as chess professionals are notable for their complete lack of anything approaching an amateur sporting spirit and are not likely to let chivalry interfere with...