Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodman left the Guild members to their convention devices, which consisted of visiting churches with famed organs, listening to organ recitals, attending symposiums on organ playing. At a special service in his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop William Thomas Manning told the organists there is a "disastrous" lack of congregational singing in the U. S. The Guild announced the winners of two $100 prize contests: Chicago's Porter Heaps for an anthem, A Thanksgiving for All Created Things, and Scranton's Leon Verrees for a choral improvisation on O God, Our Help in Ages Past. Finally...
...prove it. He "understood" that inspection officials made a practice of accepting "gratuities," narrowed the charge down to five inspectors in San Juan, Puerto Rico who had taken $560, failed to give their names, then admitted that the Department of Justice had investigated the case and dismissed it for lack of evidence. Most damaging charge Mr. Mitchell brought against higher-ups in the Department was that a man hired at $8,000 a year as a transportation expert served in reality as Secretary Roper's pressagent...
...Premier Mussolini seems to have plunged into his Ethiopian adventure without proper preparation and perhaps with lack of knowledge of true conditions in East Africa. It looks as if he had bitten off more than he can chew...
...transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...
...lack of records could dampen the excitement of the last of the six events, the mile race contested by four young men from both sides of the world who have been individually chasing each other to fabulous marks for the past three years but who had never before met collectively. In the eight times that Princeton's Bonthron, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania have raced together, Cunningham has come home in front five times, Bonthron thrice. Bon-thron meantime has had a separate series with John Edward Lovelock, the little New Zealand medical student with...