Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important movement is at stake. It has long been admitted that the lack of assimilation in America is a grievous one; that without serious effort America will never become more than a kaleidoscopic chess-board of nationalities. This movement of the American Legion is the first completely planned, nation-wide scheme of Americanization to be brought before the government. Is it to fall because of a misunderstanding, or because of Mr. Post's personal dislike of the Legion which at its last convention demanded his resignation? Petty trifles have too long stood in the way of national progress. The Legion...
...through a college without taking part in any of its activities are frequently condemned for a lack of "college spirit," while, in actuality, they are more to be pitied for a failure to make the most of their opportunity. Although it is indeed regrettable, from the standpoint of the college, to support a large number of parasitic students, who contribute nothing to its well-being, it is even more disastrous to the individual than to the institution...
Situations like these should not occur. True, University Hall is a musty old building, far too inadequate to meet the needs of the present day. But the office force, handicapped even as it is by lack of physical equipment, should certainly function in a more organized manner. For instance, the business of the Elective Office should never have been so concentrated in one person, that when the person left this year, the office found itself well-nigh helpless,--a ship without a rudder. It is true that when errors occur involving an undergraduate's standing, the deans will always rectify...
...certain type of newspaper that seek to advance their own interests by appealing to the passions of ignorant men. There is always a jealousy of those who have by those who have not, and when a poor man is told that his poverty is not due to laziness, ignorance, lack of ability, or lack of thrift, but to the alleged fact that he has been oppressed and robbed by bankers and profiteers, he is ready to excuse himself and place all the blame on somebody else. By constantly hearing the great bankers of the country referred to as robbers...
...annual convention the American Legion will find much work cut out for it in defending and strengthening American citizenship. There is no lack of things to do. The American Expeditionary Force, when it put into khaki, in a great cause, literal millions to whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted...