Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ninth arrival was a Penn State man, Glenn, but lack of support from his team made a good record for Penn impossible. Bates also was represented by one good runner, Wills, but fell short in supplying four more low scorers...
...usual, replicas of the cards have been made public, and last week many a plebeian Christmas card shopper gleaned a modicum of satisfaction from reflecting that the taste even of royalty is not always flawless. Numerous observers opined that Princess Mary had displayed a notable lack of critical flair in choosing a 17th Century garden tableau, subtitled in hackneyed fashion, "Gather ye rosebuds while...
...increase in the number of cases of embezzlement and graft reported by the police. . . . At Moscow such crimes have increased eleven fold in twelve months, and in the provinces the figure is nearly 20 fold. . . . This situation has been brought about by slipshod administrative and financial control, and by lack of care in the selection of employes. . . . 41% of the culprits had been employed less than six months . . . [and] 58% of them were addicted to drink or debauched living. . . . Bookkeeping methods have been so lax that many of the embezzlements were discovered only when trusted employes were observed...
...survey made by a committee of the Chamber, a list of leading causes for unethical trade practices has been compiled. They include price fluctuations; trade customs which have outgrown their justification; "fly-by-night" business organizations; changes in style; discrimination among customers; lack of standardization in trade practices and in products; the lack of machinery for adjusting trade disputes...
...immediately and without conditions in the work of the World Court, thus becoming a member state, are accused of being isolationists, of working against world peace, and of being unwilling to substitute law for war. Nothing could be more unfounded and foolish than this accusation. It betrays a tragic lack of objectivity on the part of most of the propagandists for the World Court. They are under the spell of a great idea; to them the World Court issue has become the symbol and test of America's willingness to cooperate with other nations in the effort to diminish...