Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masses of the U. S. It was organized in 1886 by tough shrewd, opportunist Samuel Gompers as a loose federation of unions of skilled workmen, whose realistic aim was to establish monopolies of their skills. Through the 1920's it dwindled and declined for two reasons: 1) a lack of militant, progressive leadership as its officials became absorbed in guarding their vested interests, enjoying their fat salaries, spending their energies in jurisdictional squabbles; 2) development of machines and mass production, outmoding many an old-time craft, changing the structure of industry and turning the vast majority...
...developing muscles weakened by lack of daily use," the sovereign system of Professor Edith Lindsay of Oakland's Mills College is swimming. "Swimming," she declared last week, "tops all activities as to values in physical, social, psychological and recreational development. . . . Besides direct effect on muscles, swimming is a superior activity in strengthening the vital functions and organic vigor of the body. The massaging action of the abdominal muscles needed to keep the internal organs in a state of tonus is provided by the leg thrash, which is controlled by muscles originating on the pelvis. Circulation is speeded. The heart...
...Yankees bought Outfielder Di Maggio from the San Francisco Seals for a reputed $75,000, not a record price but one high enough to justify him in displaying the utter lack of ability which expensive minor-league stars conventionally show in their major-league debuts. Any chance Di Maggio might have had to shine this season seemed even more thoroughly ruined by the attention he received in training camp, where sportswriters hailed him as the prize find of a decade. Far from achieving the collapse which his billing led sophisticated baseball addicts to expect, Rookie Di Maggio proceeded to make...
Tradition of the Ascot Gold Cup, smartest sporting event of London's spring social calendar, forbids cheering at the finish. Another tradition of the race, 2½ miles over a hilly course, is that U. S.-bred horses lack stamina to win it. Only one to do so was James R. Keene's Foxhall (named after his son, famed Poloist Foxhall Keene...
...chief cause of the recent increase in Britain's income tax is the (1 huge new armament program, 2 lack of government income from tariffs due to the free trade policy, 3 depression in British industry, 4 failure of the Bank of England, 5 refusal of England to desert the gold standard...