Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What famous officeholder had his health so impaired by his arduous office that his lunch was, by physician's orders, one apple, sliced thin??William Howard Taft who while President grew to weigh 320 pounds from lack of exercise. Now he walks three miles to the Capitol every morning, smiling all the way, takes a bath, and then goes to the Supreme Court Chamber, with the result that he weighs about 60 pounds less...
According to ex-President Theodore Roosevelt '80. "The fundamental evil of this country is the lack of sufficiently general appreciation of the responsibility of citizenship. Nothing would do more to remedy this evil than the kind of training in citizenship, in patriotism, and in efficiency, which would come as a result of universal service on the Swiss or Australian models, or rather on a combination of the two adapted to our needs. Between the ages of 18 and 21 there should be a month of actual and continuous service in the field with the colors. Such universal training would give...
...tennis match yesterday with the Business School, which the University won 6 to 2, revealed a strong, well-balanced team and augered for a successful future. Although it must be admitted that the Business School Players showed a distinct lack of outdoor practice, no qualification can be made to the statement that each College player displayed great ability and an excellent knowledge of the games...
...difficult to find even a "blood-sucking capitalist" to agree that all's right in the world. The socialist's ideal has expanded somewhat, it is true and for the original Fabians and Marxianists have sprung a varying breed, of social agitators, but doubtless the chief reason for the lack of a clear cut issue is the general acceptance of the belief that the present social structure can be vastly improved...
...view of the wide discrepancy in the circulation figures of such representative papers as the Boston Transcript and the New York Daily News, a novel statement of this sort suggests either a lack of powers of observation, or a Pollynna-like optimism. The most superficial analysis should convince Mr. Bellamy that the real reason for the present passionate interest in affairs of government and polities is that just now they are even more spicy and sensational than the latest returns on who killed whom in Westchester Country. As soon as conditions again approach the normal the favorites of former months...