Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prejudgment on the 20th Century's most fantastic murder case. One amazing prospective juror was found who confessed that he had never heard of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh affair, indeed did not even know for what case he had been called. He was challenged by the defense for "terrible lack of intelligence," excused...
After nosing about London last week the Montreal Star's breezy Correspondent M. H. Hamilton cabled: "Britain is notoriously uninterested in Canadian news, but the complete lack of interest among Press and national leaders I have interviewed over Bennett's volta face is amazing. . . . The London Times, always friendly to Bennett, has the briefest possible outline of his speech and obviously regards it as an election measure of little importance. . . . The Manchester Guardian doesn't mention it. ... I told Wickham Steed [scholarly editor emeritus of the London Times'] that Bennett had attacked individualism in business...
...principle the A. P.'s new service, designed by American Telephone & Telegraph, is what the world has long known as Telephoto. But A. T. & T., which developed Telephoto at a cost of $2,800,000 only to junk it for lack of patronage, has applied to Wirephoto a new technique* whereby it can transmit a picture so perfectly that the result is almost as good as the original. And instead of eight scattered Telephoto stations, often far from the news, Wirephoto has 24 to start with, any of which can send and receive pictures with all others...
...this lack of snow, the B. and M. Snow Trains will not run this week...
...anent the new football coach. The article is appreciative of Mr. Harlow, but it is with a shade of regret that I note that in a moral way his aims, as expressed in the article, as well as those of the lamented Haughton, and, indeed, of Harvard, seem to lack something of the old Puritanical high-mindedness that was went to be associated with Harvard and New England. Clifford R. Richards...