Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keynote of the Bureau's work was sounded in a statement made by Mr. Erskine at the time of its creation "Much of the failure of American cities to deal more effectively with street traffic may be attributed to a lack of techni. cal information. Traffic is an engineering problem. It can be controlled satisfactorily only through sound engineering methods...
...destination survey which showed that approximately thirty per cent of the traffic in the downtown district was mis-routed. The results seemed to indicate that even Bostonians were unfamiliar with the most direct routes from one point to another in their own city, and either through habit or lack of better knowledge were adding to the congestion of already heavily over-burdened traffic ways, when simpler, more direct, and often less congested routes were open to them
...present the University's policy of athletic training for all students may be said to be safely out of the experimental stage. At its inception, it had to combat such handicaps as expense, lack of facilities, opposition from the over-studious clement of the administration on one hand, from Big Crimson Team boosters on the other. But there is still a considerable distance to travel before the system can reach its goal; and it is here that the House Plan can provide an impulse. The organization of intramural sports by means of classes and fraternities has been carried about...
What could be more appropriate? The Nationalists are in effect the Irish of India ?except that they lack Irish brawn and Irish humor. They quarrel among themselves like Irishmen...
...press followed her in a perfunctory fashion, told how a yacht club gave the pair a private dining room, how the Galatea had touched at Catalina, how they sailed away again headed south, etc., etc. There was, perhaps because of Mrs. Moody's well-known composure and lack of flair, remarkably little pother made for so newsworthy a person at so newsworthy a time...