Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis has been needlessly and unwisely precipitated. . . . You cannot write on the banner of the Democratic party the skull and crossbones of an outlaw trade. . . . The only way the Republican party can hope for victory is to rely on the lack of wisdom of those who lead the Democratic party. . . . I repudiate the effort of the national chairman to submerge all other issues and bring most prominently to the front one about which he knows the Democrats entertain conflicting opinions. . . . This act was in bad taste . . . not calculated to promote harmony...
...loud speech along the same line. His attacks on Chairman Raskob for injecting Prohibition into the meeting brought boos and hisses from the audience. Angrily he exclaimed: "Oh, your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
...Idaho legislature repassed and made law a similar 90-day measure, over last fortnight's veto by Governor C. Ben Ross. It was felt, however, that Idaho's divorce-counter would feel a lack of the gambling facilities which help make life bearable in Reno. Representative Maude Largent Cosho pointed out: "Visitors would go back east and say they had to sit around and crochet. That isn't as good advertising as we're getting from spuds and Senator Borah...
...development of modern university life debating has hitherto suffered through lack of interest. It has not been able to keep pace with changing conditions. Now the use of the radio offers a new opportunity. The vast audience that can be reached through the radio should provide ample stimulus for fresh interest in forensic competition. As a result responsibility devolves on college debaters to maintain a standard of general interest in the choice of their subjects...
...unfair in the case of those who come from schools where German is not taught. German classes, excluded during the war under pressure of hysterical anti-Bocheism, have in many cases been replaced by Spanish. Particularly this is true in small Eastern and many Western high schools. While the lack of opportunity to study German is unfortunate, the University ought nevertheless to take the fact into consideration...