Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost at a standstill (TIME, Dec. 28). Though Chrysler was reported to have begun importing glass from Belgium, in rumor-ridden Detroit it was widely believed that Chrysler and every other motor manufacturer except Ford, which makes some glass of its own, would soon have to shut down for lack of glass...
...Defense. At the time of this surprise appointment (TIME. March 23) British wiseacres called it a "typical Baldwin bumble'' and predicted that the Prayer-Book Knight as an Imperial Defender would "outbumble Baldwin." Today Sir Thomas, like Lord Swinton, "misses a great deal of knowledge by his lack of tact," but Mrs. Baldwin is firmly convinced that he is as right as King Edward was wrong and that "character is more important than ability...
...throats, fever, aching eyes, back pains. They went home, stayed in bed two or three days, felt better, got up. There was probably no one in the nation who, if he escaped these symptoms, did not know someone who had not. Nevertheless, due to its short duration and apparent lack of killing power, health officials in all principal U. S. cities unanimously hesitated to dignify the widespread respiratory malady by describing it as an influenza epidemic...
Virus a protein molecule. For lack of any better explanation doctors suppose that influenza, infantile paralysis and many another disease are caused by viruses, substances invisible to the most powerful microscopes. Because such viruses grow and pass diseases on from one creature to another, doctors suppose further that all viruses are living substances...
...hates her husband for his feebleness, his lack of health and spirit. In the end each has full revenge on the other from the ignominy of their mutual pity...