Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime broadcasting tradition: No President of the U. S. is ever cut off the air for lack of time. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System admitted that it had inadvertently violated this tradition during President Hoover's Lincoln Day Address. In the Lincoln study of the White House the President read his speech. Out of sight of him a radio control operator checked his words from a printed copy of the address. Explained Columbia: "When Mr. Hoover finished all that was on the copy the control man switched the circuit back to the announcer to sign off. But the President continued...
...have a frightful confession to make. Through a lack of coordination between our Art Department and the engraver, the credit line to TIME was omitted from the end paper maps of New Russia's Primer, as you will see from the copy which...
...Neither the man requesting the service nor the other man ever hesitated-he knew. At such times I have checked their directions with a pocket compass, found them correct, sent them off into gales of jeering laughter by thus doubting their sense of direction and admitting my own lack...
...divorce for adultery, would be in the discretion of a Bishop or an ecclesiastical court which the new Canon proposes to establish. Also administered by Bishop or court would be annulment-the only means by which the Church would allow a marriage to be dissolved-on nine grounds: 1) Lack of free consent; 2) Failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; 3) Impotence of either party; 4) Mental deficiency of either party sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice; 5) Insanity of either party; 6) Consanguinity (whole or half blood); 7) Misrepresented or mistaken identity...
Throughout the game both teams played schoolboy baseball, the Crimson team coming out on top through timely hitting, after the bases had been loaded by passes, wild throws, and errors. Both pitchers evidenced distinct lack of control throughout the game, and while the Harvard bitting showed improvement, the fielding was as lethargic and ragged as in most all the previous games...