Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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city explain why this magnificent thoroughfare is as barren as a desert of trees, shrubbery, flowers or grass? With these embellishments Wilshire Boulevard would be without a rival among the capitals of the world. Is it the lack of water for irrigation purposes from which Los Angeles suffers that prevents greenery? In my admiration of this wonderful Boulevard I have often wondered why this absence of parking...
...Lack of a quorum was advanced as the only reason why the Stanford trustees had not already approved Dr. Wilbur's application for another year's leave of absence. The Secretary was described as "particularly loth" to resign from the Cabinet until the disposition of charges against him and his department's administration of Colorado shale oil lands by Field Chief Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct.13...
...speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with lack of concern touching the welfare of their city. New York has no political, let alone moral, leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city...
...belief," said the Morrow manifesto to stockholders, "that the company's troubles are largely, if not entirely, due to a lack of skilled and experienced management." In addition to citing the earnings decline, the antimanagement group attacked the company's depreciation policy. It was pointed out that whereas the 1928 statement carried depreciation at $2,051,576, the 1929 statement carried depreciation at only $1,052,253. Practical result of this depreciated depreciation was to add $1,000,000 to earnings, so that the 1929 statement showed earnings of only 5% instead of 32% less than...
...surely the ephemeralities of the little book will serve this Cause. The mystory of Jack and Jill and their resultant lack of equilibrium after a visit to the still on the hill, Humpty Dumpty's sin and the terrible retribution, which could not be altered by all the King's horses and all the King's men, may be directly attributable to a lurking fondness for the cups. The Children's Guardians of Verses may even go further. Under the scrutinizing eyes of these realists, Contrary Mary's garden of silver bells and cockle-shells will probably be exposed...