Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with my baton," he told the campaigners. In intermission while he was changing his shirt, rubbing his face with cologne, one of the Philharmonic directors said his birthday message for him: "I am a conductor and outside of the province of my own work I am conscious of the lack of power to give expression to my feelings, either to a visible or a radio audience. . . . We recognize our great responsibility. For if I fail in bringing you accurately what has been written, or if this great orchestra fails by one note, we cannot make the perfect whole which...
...Igorots of Benguet mined gold in the Philippine hills. The Spaniards snatched off their gold earrings and beat them into crucifixes. Spanish-American War adventurers, trekking inland, were greeted by natives crying "Ado Balatoc Bantay!" ("Lots of gold in the mountains.") But geological disturbances, dense vegetation, frequent droughts and lack of modern machinery kept the infant industry of the Philippines from rapid development. Not until last year did Philippine business men really begin to discover how much balatoc there was in the bantay and what it was worth. One day last autumn an old man strode down the streets...
...persistent Washington rumor of last week was that President Roosevelt had been nagged into canceling the airmail contracts by Senators Black and McKellar who felt the airmail investi- gation was about to expire for lack of public attention unless the White House acted dramati-cally...
...singular lack of efficiency and distinguished absence of diplomacy in the recent dognapping case. Charles R. Apted '06 of the Yard Police was requested by his commanding officers to hand in his sword, and at an impressive ceremony early this morning upon his return from New Haven was stripped of his regimentals and was reduced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a position he has not held since early in his career...
...Proctor H. Avon '37, William S. Baxter '37, Arnold Bronstein '37 and William T. McGann '37. Two additional possibilities are Richard MacC. Walsh '37, who has not yet reported, and Royall Victory '37, who is out for polo. All the men who pitched yesterday could be criticized either for lack of smoothness or lack of control...