Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the sun, including literature and its High Priest, Leonid Andreyev. On Feb. 12, 1928 (remembered as the birthday of one of them), a group of not-so-young Russians sat in an attic overlooking chimney pots (in the best starving-artist manner), and discussed art-or rather the lack...
...there any reason why the Filipino people should not attain such economic development? Manifestly they lack it today. . . . But the Philippine Islands are today possessed of political connections with the foremost industrial nation in the world...
...legal education; F. Trubee Davison as executive committeeman -last week published a report by Mr. Lowden's committee. Written by Commissioner Louis Newton Robinson, experienced professor of economics and criminology, this report set forth, as prime cause of crime's prevalence in the U. S., "the lack of average intelligence in the police force, particularly in the supervisory branches...
Fresh lettuce was added to the rats' meals. The animals swiftly waxed mature in all respects. Dr. Evans fed others liver with the basic regimen. Liver, too, effectively matured them. Dr. Evans and his aides decided that both liver and lettuce contained some element the lack of which prevented physical maturity. They reduced that common element of lettuce and liver to a form that was relatively pure as a physical preparation but intricately complex as a chemical compound. They named it Vitamin F and guarded well their research. Immediately upon the public announcement last week, Dr. Evans took train...
...year he took Taft School out of his own pocketbook, gave it to a self-perpetuating board of trustees. He continued to serve as headmaster. His boys have a golf course and a fine football field, but they are more likely to excel in Latin and things musical. They lack adequate housing. So last week began a campaign to raise $2,000,000, more than half of which will be used for new buildings. Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, whose family has given millions to Yale, fired the opening gun of the Taft campaign with a gift...