Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as Elk Hills) to the Doheny interests?had rendered his decision (TIME, June 8). He had decided that the lease should be cancelled. The Two Cases. In each case, the Government charged 1) fraud and conspiracy in the execution of the leases, 2) the lessor's lack of authority to make the leases...
...older civilization and to find the scales of judgment weighing in China's favor. Consequently, this class has been able to stir the masses out of their traditional inertia and to fan the smoldering fires of latent indignation into a fiery movement that does not lack analogy to the Boxer uprising of 1900. Bolshevik influences, including money, are no doubt a contributing cause of the disaffection, but can be largely discounted...
...being ashamed of my lack of knowledge, like your correspondent Monsieur Beaucaire (TIME, June 1), I cast aside such titles as Madame Bernhardt, Queen Elizabeth, etc. -and hasten to sign myself...
Wrong opinions come mainly from lack of sight, from not seeing far enough, or widely enough, or from obstacles in the line of vision, and there fore failing to take into account a part of the factors in the problem. Such near-sightedness, or defective vision, is due partly to our ignorance in large part unavoidable because we know, and can know, only a small portion of the influite compass of eternal truth. If is partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite...
...Yale News has summed up in a sentence a general emptiness and disconcerting lack of purpose among college students. "We are a prohibitive and self-conscious collection of middle-aged business men without any businesses trying for four years to fill in that alarming want." Is a scheme of education longer to be tolerated which fails to supply the first essential of education--giving purpose to life...