Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prose, Mr. Hill's "Repatriation Service in France" lacks finish, but makes up for the lack by sincerity and substance: Mr. Eastman's "After the Dance" is a short fanciful sketch. "Death and the devil," it may be fairly said, have "done for the rest." J. D. writes with sardonic force on suicide; Mr. Williams depicts vituperative Frenchmen "bandying jovial indecencies" till the order comes: "All sections roll tomorrow at four. ***Trenchbombs." Mr. Sparks tells of an aviator killed in an accident and of the French girl who mourned him. As in many stories that deal with passion, the author...
...have flocked from every state, willing, at least in spirit; our efforts to make up for years of unpreparedness have been honest, though sometimes ineffectual; and, taken all in all, our national spirit has been praiseworthy. It has shown vigor and earnestness but unhappily only too often a complete lack of sober thought...
...itself felt. You do not yet know the awful dread with which England's homes have awaited each casualty list. When the time comes, and when the country reaches a stage where, as in England or France, every man you meet who is out of uniform immediately explains his lack of khaki without being asked; then America will be really, heartily in the war, and will truly understand the necessity...
...under way in its campaign, and it is expected that the men will now follow up this mediocre beginning with far heavier totals in the coming days of the Loan Campaign. The aforesaid total that was handed in yesterday may, in some measure, be pardoned for its lack of volume by the fact that the sum does not include the collections of the Freshman canvassers, who are due to make their first report today. Nevertheless, it is certain that the University, and the members of the College especially, must answer the call of the country for funds with far greater...
...Union, but on account of the continued uncertainty of the weather, and the serious aspect of the coal situation, it was decided to postpone the opening until a more propitious time. Now, however, conditions are such as to permit the use of the whole building without fear of a lack of heat, and arrangements are already being made for an early opening of the west wing...