Word: lacking
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...