Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am amused by the fervor with which some TIME readers advertise the mosquitoes and flies in their altitudes. (Of TIME, July 11). The absence of insects of that nature in the Black Hills is more properly attributable to our lack of stagnant waters than to altitude...
...hunger strike which, in Mr. Sacco's case, was still continuing at last reports. Hunger eventually conquered Mr. Vanzetti's starvation program. During the first two days of their abstention from food, Prison Warden William Hendry inclined toward the belief that only the hot weather and lack of exercise were responsible for the prisoners' fasting. By the third day, however, this hypothesis became rather untenable, and discussion turned to the possibility of sending the prisoners to the prison hospital and there forcibly feeding them. It was recalled that in 1923 Mr. Sacco went on a hunger strike...
...Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward the U. S. (1921), in search of an administrator to restore shattered Persian finances. Soon the U. S. Secretary of State at that time, Charles Evans Hughes, suggested Dr. Arthur Chester Millspaugh as the man for Persia's money?or lack of it. The Doctor, then 38, had served the U. S. State Department as a routine drafter of official documents and later as an investigator of oil lands for the U. S. Foreign Trade Bureau. Then and there (1922) he signed at Washington, D. C., a contract vesting...
...lived, like her contemporary, Author Thomas Burke, in the slums of London. Her parents were stodgy, honest, bourgeois, with numerous aunts and cousins. Clare grew up with a longing for "finer things." This document of her callow years is marred by an overdose of sentimental estheticism and a dismaying lack of humor. She seems a little too sure that she was an unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography of a Weathercock,' 'A Day in the Country,' and 'What I would do with...
...more than 400,000 cruiser tons (200,000 less than the British asked) ; 2) That the British proposal to limit cruisers to 7,500 tons could not be tolerated, chiefly because it would make more than 40 fast British steamers potential cruisers, and also because of U. S. lack of naval bases; 3) That the British had stated their position in such bald terms that the Coolidge Administration would not find such a treaty as the British proposed valuable political capital, but rather the reverse...