Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Convention had not as yet received the authorization of Congress. When Congress finally sanctioned the Convention, he accepted at once. It is true that he was suffering from rheumatism to such an extent that he "had his arm in a sling for ten days at a time." Lack of ready money also hampered...
...spite of his lack of eloquence and his gift for wise cracks, his sincerity has so impressed Congress that one profane Senator after hearing him remarked: "If Roosevelt ever becomes Jesus Christ, he should have Harry Hopkins as his prophet...
...play on the college team, but turned professional, signed in 1920 with a team called "The Original Celtics." Holman played with the Celtics for eight years, during which they won an average of 120 out of 130 games a year, never lost a series, finally broke up for lack of opponents. Softspoken, sleek-haired, he coaches smooth and deceptive team play, foxy shifts from man-to-man to zone defenses. In spare time he studies sculpture, has made three figures. Says he: "I mold my players just like I mold my clay." East. In 1908 Harvard quit the Eastern Intercollegiate...
...that it is a British Gaumont production, of their better and livelier sort. This results in careful but not clever photography, authentic Belgian scenes, a minimum of stock bombardment pictures and a pleasant understatement in love-scenes and in the gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll...
Dean Leighton has in his annual report called attention to a very real defect in the educational system at Harvard, in the lack of sufficient individual attention and advice from members of the Faculty to students when it is most needed, i.e., during the Freshman year. Lack of time, lack of interest, sometimes lack of knowledge prevent Freshman advisers from performing any but a purely mechanical function. The problem is first to get advisers thoroughly acquainted with the individuality of each advisee, and second to get them to use that knowledge to guide every Freshman into the field of endeavor...