Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many members have not been able to do any shooting up to last week, because of a lack of suitable weapons. This situation has been remedied by the purchase of several Colt's Woodman guns, and all members will now be assured of practice...
...stormed "Guttersnipes!" at students who hissed a party of visiting Italians (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). In these years also he showed a gift for painful bluntness by declaring that 1) teaching is a profession commonly chosen by persons with inferiority complexes, and 2) City College students lack social graces. Antagonism to Dr. Robinson bubbled over last week when some 700 alumni surged into a City College auditorium to hear a committee which has been investigating the college administration. A majority report, signed by twelve members, charged that the president "lacks the human qualities necessary to achieve the widespread confidence...
...spend increases faster than goods can be produced." On this definition he bases a rhetorical question: "How is it possible to have inflation when men are idle and plants are idle?" _ However, nearly every economist has his own pet idea of what constitutes inflation, largely because of the astonishing lack of agreement on just where good times become a boom and a boom becomes inflation. On only one point is there any unanimity: the possibilities of inflation in the U. S. lie almost wholly within the banking system. And the core of that problem is bank reserves and their manipulation...
...himself elected President of the U. S. Three dice are rolled, the total on each roll entitling the player to stick colored pins in a big map of the U. S. Each State has an arbitrary seven counties, except a few in the East which have only four for lack of space on the map. Count is by electoral vote, and the importance of the State is roughly indicated by the number of dice points required to win one county. Thus while it takes only one point to win a county in Arizona, nine are needed in New York, eight...
...Last Puritan is complex, ironic, puzzling, there are likely to be as many interpretations of Santayana's long fable as there are readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some lack of physical passion, the author makes it clear that for Oliver puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness...