Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixth Pan-American Conference (TIME, Jan. 16) accomplished absolutely nothing, last week at Havana, but its sessions did not lack colorful, intriguing, significant points...
...after his death.* Three of these?the "gospels" of Matthew, Mark, and Luke?obviously derive in part from the same sources, in part from each other. The history written by John is a different story, leaving out much fact that is in the others, adding much theology that they lack. There are other recountals of the life of God's son; they have, all taken together, enough contradictions to make their corroborations doubtful. The purpose of the biographies of Christ that have been written in modern times are varied, but most are preoccupied with presenting a point of view...
...Lack of space prevents the publication today in the columns of the CRIMSON of the full text of President Lowell's annual report to the Board of Overseers. In the adjoining column will be found extracts from the portions of the report dealing with the major questions which it discusses...
...without disrespect of either woman suffrage or Count Keyserling's opinion of its prowess, the latter's ideas might be said to verify the fact that distance lends enchantment and that the European point of view on this particular phase of American politics is due not only to a lack of understanding but also a lack of sympathy. Merely because an Esthonian philosopher is unable to understand why the majority of American male voters den themselves the Epicurean pleasures of liquors is hardly substantial foundation for branding the United States a matriarchate...
...climes have been pretty well blasted by the crowded condition of the Library and the very normal term-time appearance of the Square; Boston hostesses and Yard cops will testify that things have been "quiet" in a social way; and the bootleggers have been heard to complain of the lack of conviviality registered at the University...