Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lions Club of York, Pa., was Dr. Gill's immediate audience last week as he flayed- ". . . The commissioning of recent graduates in medicine, attracted to the Naval Health Service by an assured stipend, a voiceless clientele, lack of competition and diagnosis backed by military rank...
Cried Dr. Gills: ". . . Any information [about Navy health] which Rear Admiral Magruder lack's, I can give him. . . . We need more Magruders and fewer recruiting posters. . . .In the interest of human life, I do not propose to be muzzled...
...crude oil on an average of 15 kopeks a pood, after paying 20% taxes on profits, 5 to 45% royalties and higher wages for workmen. Now, he continued, the production of crude oil costs double, despite the confiscation of property, no taxation or royalties, lower wages to workmen and lack of strikes, which hitherto were frequent...
What was to the bargees merely an unwarranted disturbance of early morning comfort, was, to newspapers, material for front pages desecrated by a lack of transoceanic flights and prizefights. The man so scornfully described by the lazy fellows, was in reality James J. Walker, Mayor of New York, who had been abroad for two months. Surely the adjectives applied by the bargees were out of order; they had read, no doubt, in spare moments, accounts of the Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France...
Doomed to lack the range and the essentially new concepts of a great poet, Mr. Wheelock with his sixth book again proves himself capable of valuing these limitations and of creating, within them, poetry that possesses a sure delicate beauty and bright depth of truth...