Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference was to hear an appeal for the establishment of an international code of standards for airplane manufacture and certificates of airworthiness. Qualifications of those countries that belong to the International Convention for Air Navigation are fairly uniform. But the U.S. does not belong to that convention, and its lack of accord hampers the export of our planes, parts and accessories...
...played there. The popularity of squash during the winter months was shown by its daily average of 501 men, giving it second place. Although most of the Freshmen have lockers at Soldiers Field, the Freshman Athletic Building took third place with an average of 298 in attendance. The lack of swimming accommodations, which will soon be done away with by the new gymnasium, was evidenced by the small attendance of 136 men who used the Big Tree Swimming Pool each...
Among a colonizing and militantly imperial race, like the British, such an incident would seem trivial, minuscule. But so fledgling and unmilitant is U. S. imperialism that the death of even one young colonizer as he raced for home does not lack poignant significance...
Singing Jailbirds. To Author Upton Sinclair, it seems that the lack of charity with which rich men deal with poor men is a novel wickedness, separate from the other beetlish wars which people wage among themselves. He sympathizes with the poor men and writes tirades in their favor, damning "capitalists." Such a tirade is Singing Jailbirds which was acted last week by the New Playwrights Theatre...
...British De Haviland Moth was the only foreign plane displayed. That lack of foreign makes vexed the large group of European aeronautic authorities who visited the show on their way to the International Aeronautics Conference at Washington, this week, and the 28th flying anniversary at Kitty Hawk...