Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationwide introduction will first be necessary but in making it, Boss Taggart will not lack for good things to say. President of the Fletcher Savings & Trust Co., a neat, grey man of 62, Candidate Woollen has frequently displayed fortitude combined with his philosophy. He bolted the Bryan organization in 1896. He told farmers who deposit in his bank that, sorry though he was for them, he viewed the McNary-Haugen farm relief scheme with alarm. Similarly he has risked the displeasure of manufacturers by denouncing high tariff time and again...
...source of much of the calumny which has come to be heaped on higher education. The giants of teaching are gone and in their place have left an army of efficient but mechanistic instructors who are excellently equipped as far as their technical knowledge is concerned but who lack the spirit which characterized such men as--to cite Harvard examples--Eliot and Norton...
...small number of students attending the Club's performances; the atricals have yet to lose their hold on the youthful mind. This lethargic condition is, nevertheless, a possible cause by which to explain the come which surrounds the efforts of the organization. Another potential factor in the lack of college success which the Dramatic Club has met might lie in the direction and training of the plays direction which has been, of late, merely capable. At any rate there is something vitally wrong, and an attempt to analyze that wrong is not out of place. Destructive criticism, while not offering...
...generation of undergraduates likes to believe originated with it is the premise that athletics are overemphasized. This, too, however, is one of the oldest of theories. In the seventh century B.C., Xenophanes, a philosopher who expressed his theorics in verse, deplored the overappreciation of the Olympic heroes and the lack of recognition for wisdom of the cort he boasted...
...seen that the President had not stepped out of his characteristically neutral attitude on all things to "assail" or "rebuke" anyone, but had discussed the U. S. press objectively, hypothetically, giving as much emphasis to his disapproval of too great nationalism therein as to his strictness on lack of patriotism...