Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topics of world-wide significance; in addition, it offers them a chance to practice the valuable ability of expressing their ideas clearly and convincingly in public. Moreover, such relatively informal discussion, if successful, should be of material advantage to the University Debating Council, which is at present suffering from lack of forceful speakers...
...charge to the jury, Federal Judge Wilkerson declared: "Lack of good business judgment cannot be considered a basis for conviction. Simply because a defendant embarked upon a losing business venture is no grounds for supposition of guilt. . . . Erroneous judgment may be as consistent with good intent as with...
...cost of $4,000,000, has been virtually deserted while Newark Airport grew fat & famed as the world's busiest commercial flying field. But the latter's sagging runways, built on filled-in marshland, are so bumpy that airline pilots call it "Mount Newark." For lack of hangar space at Newark, TWA has agreed to move to Floyd Bennett by Jan.1. To hold other airlines at "Mount Newark," Mayor Ellenstein offered them free hangar rent for six months, no more municipal taxes on gas, oil, mail & passengers...
There can be no question that for the past year or more the quality of the editorial page of the CRIMSON has been steadily declining. Not only are your editorials, in the main, miserably written, but they exhibit an appalling lack of conviction. In an attempt to formulate an editorial policy there has resulted a complete lack of policy. By way of example, I cite the ludicrous sophistry of the editorial published in Friday morning's paper of last week on the Mellon scholarship. If you desired to change your position from that previously taken on the Hanfstaengl scholarship...
...grew up with Chet, and I've never seen him when lack wasn't with him. Once his jitney gave out forty miles from nowhere, and who came along and towed him in but Senator Black. The Senator became so interested in Chet that he gave him a job in his office that summer and offered to help him through college...