Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets for his shafts...
...Lloyd-Jones, good-humored captain of the Oxford debating team that is meeting 19 U. S. college teams here this autumn, continued: "Your American universities seem to be fresh and very invigorating, with a great deal of energy and spirit but students of the same age lack the maturity which is evident at an English university. They don't take their problems seriously and seldom think constructively until after graduation...
...fact--perhaps not generally known by those who charge us with lack of courtesy--that, with the exception of two of the Yale songs, none of the songs of those colleges which are our opponents on the gridiron are available at any price in band arrangement, and in some cases even vocal or piano copies are not to be obtained with ease. On the other hand such Harvard songs as "Our Director" and "Veritas" are standard marches and can be purchased at any time in band arrangement, and In some cases even vocal or piano copies...
...gentlemen who, as victims of the said competition, have been drafted to their ridiculous duty. Their services need only have been impressed for the bedevilment of Harvard cheering, and they are assuming that implied obligation seriously--or is it ironically. The "avocatus Diaboli," I am aware, contends that a lack of "devil" in the stands is reflected on the field. This, as everybody else perfectly well knows, is rubbish. I have often been told by football friends that they did not even hear the cheering during a game much less care whether there was any or not. Cheering...
...undeniable that spiritually and socially the world is little Better than at any other period of history. Only in comparatively recent times has intelligence arrogated to itself a hand in the "destiny that shapes our ends." Mr. Miller accepts this attitude among modern thinkers without question, asserting only a lack of confidence keeps them from the full investigations asserting faultless logical conclusions which would consummate all the desired changes. Yet this power over the malleable future may be an unsupportable presumption, a possibility which he discounts with disdain. His thesis is that with patience and care the film that...