Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are just a few samples taken at random to indicate the progressive currents that are at work in China, and when you consider the size of the country and her lack of communications and her lack of money, which has been imposed upon her by foreign powers from the very day that they awoke her with their insistence on foreign trade, it becomes clear that while China is not entirely free from faults, the present condition in which she finds herself is by no means entirely the result of her own actions or defects, but has been very largely...
...Sullivan pointed out that it was not any lack of desire to help that kept the United States out. "Until the countries of Europe have accomplished those three things in order to help themselves nothing can be done by us to help them. We are eager to be of assistance, but each nation must first show that it is ready to help itself", he declared in conclusion...
This is the situation of Anthony Patch and, as it is to be expected his story is one of a rapid descent from a position in which he keeps within most of the bounds of convention through lack of daring or leisure to transgress to a position in which, with a very unconvincing attitude of insouciance, he has given up every pretense of being more than a beast...
...play at least three times a week; the best players in every college on their first or second college teams every day. Elaborate inter-college football schedules are arranged. As with football, so with every other sport. The great difficulty of arranging intramural sports at Harvard is the lack of convenient units such as these colleges for keeping up the interest...
...this play entertained Broadway for a large part of last season, and as a sweetmeat to whet the palate it is a tasty morsel. The action, although a little slow in starting, is brisk throughout the play, and the dialogue is often sparkling. The one real drawback is the lack of reality both in plot and treatment, but this quality is the privilege of the farceur...