Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traff Hicks, and with Ford's charley horse a possible drawback. But Freddy Moseley, without whose services the team beat Me-Gill last week, will be in proper shape tonight, and with Thorny Brown at reserve defence in 'Hicks' place, the Harvard forces should not suffer seriously from lack of man-power...
...constantly referred to "trained college graduates." Those of us who are devoting all of our time and attention to the problem of training public servants of the highest standards for America's government and semi-public problems, are convinced more and more as time rolls on of the utter lack of wisdom in any effort to "train" for public service, as such, in undergraduate years at college. There are many reasons for this. In the first place, that man who devotes his attention to such "tool" subjects as personnel management, fire and police administration, etc., during undergraduate years must necessarily...
Senate Investigator Charles Harry Payne: On a 9,000-mi. inspection trip, he found "lack of training, laxity, indifference and an almost complete lack of understanding of the requirements of a pilot." Near Charlottesville, Va., calling for weather data, he found the observer away, his wife at the post. Said she: "I reckon from where I'm sitting it's cloudy." Trembling with emotion, Witness Payne ended by shouting: "Take the Department of Commerce out of politics. You are gambling with human lives...
...American fleet, especially in the Pacific, has to contend with the important problem of few bases at great distances from one another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing to this lack of bases. Great Britain, with many bases dotting the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean from Gibraltar to Hongkong, has been content with smaller ships of less fuel capacity. The two policies have naturally clashed in the attempts toward mutual agreement on fleet strength...
...Green's fast team showed its superiority especially in its capable ball handling. This gave the visitors a decided advantage over a Harvard team which seemed to lack the aggressiveness marked by its victory over Williams last Saturday...