Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judging from some of the communications you receive and publish, it would seem that if some folks ever catch cold in their sense of humor (or lack of it), O Boy, won't the undertakers be kept busy...
...native land to give a concert in Manhattan on April 10. With him comes his wife, niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler. He is accompanied also by an amazing record. Every concert of his given in Europe has been crowded. For three years people have been turned away for lack of room in the halls whence his queer sounds emanated...
...settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe," is his premise. The colonists were "stripped Europeans": stripped by Protestantism of humanity, by science of faith, by the Age-of-Reason of government. A lack or exaggeration of one of these three-the kingdom, the power, the glory-has characterized all but 30 years of U. S. history. The golden day of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman lasted from...
...sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression "as depressing as a subway ride." William James at least had a style, the lack of which suggests an organic failing in his disciple. Philosopher Santayana preserves a sense of beauty, but is at once exotic and provincial...
Later, in 1810, the Corporation asked the Legislature to issue a grant for another lottery. In presenting its case, the college pointed out is absolute lack of money after the erection of Stoughton Hall and repairs made on Massachusetts Hall. With the granting of their plea, the University authorities set about their task of raising $30,000. The cost of running the lottery ran up as high as $24,500, but it netted $29,000, just 1,000 dollars short of the original goal. The hall is named after Sir Matthew Holworthy, who gave more money to Harvard University during...