Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bolivian army still wears the old colorful uniform of the Prussian army. General Hanskundt in 1911 reformed the Bolivian army. Today our Junkers flyers are instructors of the Bolivians. Junkers airplanes are flying over primeval forests and are a most effective instrument of combat due to a lack of roads. German business men and technicians are as welcome in Bolivia as German teachers. The German school founded in La Paz in 1924, now numbers 300 students. Just because Germans had such an active part in the growth of Bolivia we may wish Bolivia a speedy peaceful consolidation of her boundaries...
...researcher, the nephew of a Prime Minister, to have discovered how to control the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins. Perhaps the most encouraging trait of humanity is the ingenuity which it exhibits in making such discoveries; and perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about his findings, and its members, absolutely unable to think of anything to do about it, offer to put him in jail...
Though Wings Over Europe, by virtue of its lack of sex-appeal and the Wells-Vernian circumstances of its conversational plot, is a freak play, it is also of the kind called "profound." This means that its excitements are cerebral and that spectators, leaving the theatre in their cabs, will be aroused to the point of shouting each other down with explanations of its meanings and with speculations as to what each one would have done, had he or she been the luckless Lightfoot...
...Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack: they like to play as well as watch. Japanese players, unlike U.S. ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers...
Reasons for laggard Latin American communications are 1) lack of capital; 2) lack of initiative, and 3) lack of imagination. Notoriously well-supplied with all three of these desirable attributes are U. S. communication companies. An enterprising executive, therefore, might well ask himself this question: Why should my company not invade this deplorably backward continent, consolidate its scattered, ineffective companies, modernize its lines, link its capitals...