Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican party has failed badly in many features of its administration. Its lack of a clean cut, decisive foreign policy has made America's foreign relations infinitely involved and uncertain. Its high protective tariff has destroyed the prosperity of large regions of the country. Its enforcement of law has been lax and its legislation ineffective...
...Puritan President is, is fitted particularly for the problems of this rushing 20th Century. A great amount of propaganda has been sent out about his ' cautiousness,' ' thriftiness ' and ' silence,' and the women, I believe, do not find these particularly commendable virtues in a President. Caution is easily synonymous with lack of courage, thrift often degenerates into stinginess and silence does not always connote wisdom...
...University forwards did not attack with that unity which was conspicuous in the game a week ago against Cornell. This lack of co-operation was also noticeable in the defence, where Brooks, Pattison, and Furber did themselves much credit in resisting the aggressive Princetonian...
...only natural that the Harvard man is anxious above all for success this year in the Palmer Stadium. The biennial invasion of New Jersey is about to start--to be carried out, so reports are both by land and by sea. And the Crimson will not lack supporters when it faces the Orange and Black, for undergraduates, at least, would rather win tomorrow than any other time this year...
...government every bit as complex as that which India presents to Great Britain. In 1899, not long after the Patriots' League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack of education and "linguistic diversities," plus a Moro element, a small but violent portion of the total population which professed the Mohammedan religion in opposition to the Catholic...