Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donahue selection caused a Massachusetts uproar. Depositors, fearful lest they lose by the receiver's lack of training, considered formally protesting his appointment. Haverhill's Democratic City Committee increased its political flavor by warmly endorsing it. Appeals to the State's Democratic bosses-Senator Walsh and Governor Ely-were met with the retort that it was impossible to interfere with the President...
...High wages or low wages, the average domestic servant employed in the American home is about as belligerent, independent, and uncooperative as a "spoiled child." They do less and expect more out of life than does a college graduate with a Ph.D., and are far less appreciative. The majority lack foresightedness, hate work, and don't try to hold a job if they have one. If office girls (many right now are working for $50 per month out of which they must maintain themselves solely) came to work prepared to get spunky and independent every five minutes, there just...
...challenge to Alma Jacobsen's plea for protection covering those persons seeking domestic employment. So two-sided is every question that I can't but wonder if she may not be equally culpable in her report against the employer's lack of consideration! Perhaps it has been my good fortune to engage the unusual in the domestic staff since, but with a single exception, I've never had one that I for some reason or other was forced to give up, who did not want to return and with always her very gratifying "I shall never...
...legend that, north of Mexico, the maguey blossoms only once a century existed largely on lack of observation. The plant blooms naturally in the sunny Southwest. But in northern States the maguey requires the comforts of greenhouses. No northern specimen is known to have bloomed outdoors...
Technically, the strength of Champion Crawford's game lies in its lack of any noticeable weakness, in a knack of anticipation, and in an extraordinarily keen discrimination about when to play a ball and when to let it go out. His serve, almost as severe as Vines's, is equally dependable. With slower ground strokes than most first-rate U. S. tennists, and less style than most Englishmen, who play as though the net were a mirror, Crawford has an energetic steadiness that depresses his opponents, a tireless ability to play his positive, muscular shots, not for aces...