Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Harry Cowles expressed himself as very much pleased with the showing of the team last Saturday in the match with Columbia but added that they showed the lack of outdoor competi- tion...
Since 1930 a major obstacle to intelligent handling of relief and recovery has been the lack of accurate statistics on the number, occupations and geographical distribution of the unemployed. Before 1932 the Democrats lambasted President Hoover for this blind spot on the nation's No. 1 problem. Since 1932 the Republicans have not hesitated to point out that President Roosevelt has done no better than his predecessor in assembling facts and figures on the extent of joblessness. Last year the Administration got the House to appropriate $7,540,000 for hiring 105,000 canvassers to take a census...
Because of lack of space the audience will be limited to the members of the society and one guest apiece. Besides Copey's reading, plans for the Tercentenary will be discussed and several papers will be read...
...Lack of funds is the customary fly in the ointment. The regrouping of several smaller scholarships formerly offered is not sufficient. A group of a dozen Middle Western students at Harvard is only a beginning to the ambitious program proposed. But where there is conviction and determination like that of Harvard's president, a way will eventually be found to make it possible for Harvard to cater in a considerable way to outstanding students from the West. --Michigan Daily...
...little else than his optimism. His record for public cheerfulness was unbroken until last month when the 73-yearold steelmaster stepped off shipboard, gloomily observing that U. S. Business seemed to be "marking time." Last week he half-apologized for that slip, saying: "My words may have conveyed a lack of enthusiasm but my heart and my mind contain optimism and enthusiasm which will never change. Don't worry. We're going to have good business again...