Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addressed less to the President than to the U. S. public, it did not flatly refuse to pay but depicted dire consequences if payment were forced. As the President scanned it, he spotted many a phrase-"world depression," "storm brewing," "repeated shocks," "widespread ruin," "baneful effects," "lack of confidence" -which might have been lifted directly from his own campaign speeches. Without emphasizing the domestic poverty of Britain the note declared...
...tact and patience, materially aided the conference's success. His repeated statement, repeatedly confirmed by the U. S. State Department, is: "I have no authority to discuss debts." But in present-day diplomacy, which Congress has told President Hoover he must continue to use on the Debts, lack of authority can be a great asset, a key to confidence. If a diplomat says Yes he means Maybe. If he says No he is no diplomat. A diplomat without authority can mean Yes without committing anyone to anything, No without offending anyone, yet his answer may open...
...candidate, had received some 137,000 "protest" votes, to the alarmed dismay of Tammany Hall and its bull-jowled nominee for Mayor, John Patrick ("Potatoes") O'Brien. To cast a McKee vote citizens had to write his name in on voting machines-a process hampered by ignorance, lack of pencils and the hostility of Tammany election officials...
...passes develop from forwards, forwards from laterals, spinners and reverses have complications impossible and unnecessary for amateur teams. There are few long end runs because professional ends are too fast to flank, almost no double wing back formations for the same reason. Serious injuries are rare, not because professionals lack zeal and dirty craft, but because, since substitutes are usually as able as the men they replace, there is nothing to be gained by disabling opponents...
...course, obstacles to the success of a general "get-together" of the members of a large field. Perhaps most cogent is the truism that concentrators are primarily interested in the subject, not in their co-workers. Any attempt to bring them together may fail simply because of this lack of mutual interest, and because the men are often personally incongenial. Such a difficulty may be overcome, however, if men can be shown the definite advantages which such periodic meetings offer them. By conversation with colleagues a student can be brought into contact with many branches of his subject that...