Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweep away the anarchy and "spiritlessness" of Chinese who "lack proper guidance for taking and giving," the Outline proposes ''a wild storm"; to give China the new "right spirit," it proposes "a gentle breeze...
Fifth Floor. Around the Herald Tribune's editorial offices and in the city room a woman is seldom seen. With rare exceptions, City Editor Stanley Walker has small use for women reporters. Of various reasons and prejudices, perhaps the most tangible is his conviction that newswomen lack versatility and are practically useless on police stories. His only female reporter is Emma Bugbee, who is indispensable for keeping tabs on Mrs. Roosevelt in Washington and out. In the sport department Janet Owen was hired, at Mrs. Reid's insistence, to cover women's games. There are no others...
...other hand, while the Caseymen displayed a lack of football experience, an ignorance of what was going to happen next when the opening moves of a play were well obscured, at the same time they pulled together as a team far better than was expected. Three or four days' practice as a unit was all the starting eleven had had, yet the result was not chaos...
...weakest general sector in the Harvard setup was the line between the two ends. Even with Captain Gundiach in action the forward part of the attack and defense was not strong. Gundy himself was not going well, due to his injury, and lack of practice...
...With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian revolution. It had been everything that individual likes and dislikes may choose to call it. But it had been on the grand scale. It had not been petty. Here I was assisting...