Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus, the great minds of our country debate the weighty issues that confront them. Ultimately, decisions are reached and we, the people, suffer or benefit, as you will, from the talents or lack of them that characteristize our American statesmen. The Congressional Record is filled daily with their utterances and a casual reading of it will furnish a greater knowledge of American government than several ponderous text-books...
Seven lone, snow-covered, cars testify to Lehman Hall's lack of wisdom and faulty economics in attempting to compete with other garages and parking spaces around the Square in supplying a haven for undergraduate autos. The principal reason for the economic failure of the parking space is the high rates which the Business Manager has instituted...
Electrical output: Plan-19,000,000,000 kilowatt hours in 1932-33; performance -13,500,000,000 kilowatt hours in 1934, much of which could not be absorbed for lack of sufficient motors to be driven, lamps lighted...
...Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors. The new President was so impressed that he had the film made from the book shown twice at the White House and Pundit Walter Lippmann composed a high-minded sermon on its lack of intrinsic importance. Now, without benefit of a rewrite-man, the Briton who learned his political realism under David Lloyd George has tried it again, in another fuzzy apocalyptic novel of the future...
...does. Under such a plan the work would not be reduced but it is possible that it would be changed so as to avoid the general examination. The committee, if it considered the application favorably, would recommend the special plan to the faculty, but it is expected that lack of data will prevent any such recommendation for a year...