Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that there will always be a certain half-backed, deluded element who are the sheep led by the militarist higher up. Mr. Bertsch states that modern warfare is worthless without the proper, modern equipment to practice it with. He lays this grievous oversight to the American people and their lack of what he calls sense of preparedness. Just what does he mean by that? Of what great danger must we beware that we must become an armed camp? These generalities often quoted by militarists have no meaning whatsoever. Mr. Bertsch says, "We aren't practicing because we haven...
...uniform over which he was to wear a great royal black and crimson mantle. Abruptly Edward VIII, giving the excuse that it had started to rain cancelled all the traditional British pageantry, popped into a motor car and whisked off to Whitehall through what United Press reported as "a lack of crowds considered unprecedented...
...whole mess may rightfully be blamed on the deplorable lack of Electoral College spirit. In another month the electors will get togethers in some hall and cast their votes just as if it didn't matter which way they went. How can they expect Landon and Knox and Roosevelt and Garner down there on the field to give everything they've got when the Electoral College boys sit back on the bleachers and say isn't it a shame we haven't had a good team since Lincoln and Hamlin...
...return to the old rule is not desirable. As the Student Council stated, it should be revised and standardized. The lack of system in previous years was without doubt a contributory factor in the demand for stricter regulations. A plan that would be convenient and at the same time effective, like the Oxford card system, would meet with general approval. It is clear that some change is called for, and in formulating the new plan President Conant and the Masters would do well to take into their confidence a delegation from the student body which has every desire to smooth...
...verses in More Poems are typical of Housman, give no evidence of lack of finish or failing power. They abound in tight, dry expressions of his skepticism...