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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of confidence in the economic future ... of the U. S. is foolish. . . . Words are not of any great importance in times of economic disturbance. It is action that counts. . . . The next practical step is the organizing and coordinating of a forward movement of business through the revival of construction activity, the stimulation of exports and of other legitimate business expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action Counts | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...unknown frugal Yorkshireman remembered Poet Philips' splendid shilling fortnight ago, and the Miltonic disasters that, according to ensuing stanzas, the lack of it entailed. Further he remembered that tousle-headed eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania had just been given his first pair of long trousers (TIME, Oct. 28). To a Birmingham newspaper he sent a shiny new shilling piece and a note, addressed to the King of Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Splendid Shilling | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...three hours later they came out well plastered, and damned if they didn't render a decision of guilty." The lawyer for the defence jumped up and said 'Those men aren't jurors; they're witnesses'. He then aled exceptions on the grounds of intoxication in the jury and lack of evidence, the jury having finished it off. A swell mess allright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...Crimson running attack should also come in for its share of polishing up. It seems probable that Coach Horween and his aides will evolve a reliable power play, the lack of which has cost the University team more than one sure score-during the campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ELEVEN RESTS AS ELIS HAVE HARD DRILL | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...fall crew season, which ended two weeks ago with a aeries recited a lack of heavyweight University material, stork oars in particular; excellent 150-pound material; and great potentialities in the Freshman squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Cox Finds Dearth of Heavyweight Material in Review of Fall Crew Season--150-pound and 1933 Prospects Bright | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

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