Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australia hesitates to receive immigrants it must not be conceived in an unfriendly spirit or as a lack of desire to fraternize with the peoples of other lands but merely as a desire to protect Australians from the misery of unemployment...
...projects, especially large public fountains or memorials. He believed that modern architects should not try to imitate what has gone before but at the same time should keep in the traditions, that the radical work being done in Germany and France today is of little import because of its lack of artistic foundation. When he was asked to design the St. Ambrose Chapel in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, he made a Renaissance design, saying that Gothic, in which the Cathedral is built, was a splendid form but had no bearing on the 20th Century...
Under the previous system, or more correctly, lack of system, the graduating members of the student body were ejected upon the actualities of wage earning with no other assistance than a diploma, and individual inclinations. Unless he happened to be especially fortunate in family connections, he was forced to accept the position that chance offered rather than take the time definitely to consider what fields might be most attractive and accessible. The new plan of the omnipotent panacea for this evil, but it does afford a means of eliminating useless hunting and the acceptance of "trial jobs". The statistics...
...activities of the New York stock market in the past week have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere. European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of the continental finesse in the pursuit of this world's goods...
...Emanuel ("Mannie") Kessler, "King of Bootleggers" and his partner Morris Sweetwood, both onetime Atlanta timeservers; both thought to have reformed; discovery among syndicate papers of a check signed by Chicago's gang king, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, now imprisoned at Philadelphia. Disappointments: release of Kessler and Sweetwood for lack of evidence; failure to entice liquor transports into the trap baited by faked radio calls; failure to capture the three managing directors...