Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are examples by Canaletto, Guardi, Piranesi, Constable, Ruskin, Turner, Prout, J. L. Smith, K. J. Conant, and H. A. Webster. The works are all selected from the mass of valuable material owned by the Fogg Museum which cannot be exhibited there on account of the cramped facilities and lack of exhibition space. No attempt has been made, in arranging the exhibition, to cover the periods represented in a systematic way, but merely to bring together a number of examples of drawings and water colours which would show the different points of view of a number of artists in different...
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart has earned the gratitude of all Americans who love America in defending himself before the Boston School Committee as he has. Furthermore, he has shown a sense of humor, a sense which some of the gentlemen opposed to him appear sadly to lack...
...emergency" is a phrase quoted by habitual optimists. Like all such phrases, however, it frequently fails to hold true. To be sure, above the turbulent noises of war some fortunate countries heard the voice of a master. With the British armies reduced to the most extreme danger from lack of shells. England, appalled at the vastness of the problem baulked at the undertaking till she found, in her recently rejected Premier a breadth of vision and a driving force to inspire her disunited industrialism and in turn her thousand cities into one munitions factory. And later, when the Allies, disappointed...
...Some lack of labor was readily forecasted when the immigration bill was passed, but the supporters of the bill were blessed with much more extensive point of view than the manufacturers now possess. The latter regard the question merely in relation to the immediate benefits which industry will or will not gain from it. The former recognized the fact that immigration to this country had attained such enormous proportions and was of such a deplorably low character that it was no longer possible to assimilate the newcomers. They formed a constantly growing abscess in the body of our nation which...
...hurl as no indictment but state as a fact that there is a real lack of interest among our graduate students in football as well as other activities of Harvard College. These men are interested in the welfare of the college that granted them their degrees, in the college which they perhaps represented, at least cheered for, and which they still, as is only right and commendable, are most proud of. But that college, excepting Harvard men, is not Harvard...