Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferrell--beering in "Manhattan Club", modestly admitting he always pitched enough winning games to get a pennant for any club but seeming to infer that there was distinct lack of talent among some of the other Sox moundsmen...
Belittled Communist Gallacher: "There is a complete lack of confidence in the present monarch. . . . You have not only had the abdication of a monarch who had been presented as the last word in an Ideal Man, but you have now got a Monarch that no one is sure of at all. . . . His Majesty's Government are only concerned with profits, and so long as the King assisted them in keeping profits going they kept the King. . . . The members of this House are playing with themselves in thinking they can continue to fool the people of this country. . . . There...
Certain aspects of the plan betray a surprising lack of generosity on the part of the University. Morning lectures are to be recorded and not put on the air until later in the day when the audience is larger. This is rank discrimination against the American housewife, and promises to become a breeder of privilege. Imagine the pleasure that would come into the lives of our wives and mothers if during mornings spent bent over a hot stove or steaming washtub they could turn a switch and hear a lecture from Mallinckrodt, perhaps by Professor Kohler, giving them some...
...hundred word precis with each course that allows Freshmen to enroll in it, and publish this precis under the course title in the catalogue, it would render a very valuable service to those who were not sure of their own qualifications or of what would be demanded of them. Lack of adequate official information about the more elementary courses offered by the college is inexcusable, since the only way to get this necessary information at the present time is to go and see the instructor himself; a laborious process that obviously can not be indulged...
...brick buildings, with two or three others, less unsightly, of grey stone. Its library is rich in old historical works relating to America, but scarcely any manuscripts' in fact manuscripts are scarcely to be found in any public collections in the United States. The library is suffering from lack of funds, and is therefore sadly different in the literature of the last ten years...