Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine days before Uruguay broke off relations, Comrade Minkin cabled again: THE PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY INFORMS ME OUR REFUSAL TO GRANT HIS REQUEST REGARDING CHEESE IS INTERPRETED AS A FRESH DISPLAY OF LACK OF CONSIDERATION TOWARD HIMSELF AND MAY WEAKEN HIS ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF MAINTENANCE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN URUGUAY...
Engineering News-Record jumped to defend excavators everywhere by editorially calling the Gauley Bridge furore "fantastic bunk." On the other hand, "The time has come," declared that journal, "to bring out authoritatively all the facts of silicosis hazards." When the inquest was petering out for lack of wind last week young Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia appeared before the House Committee with a commonsense statement: "This was and is American industry's 'Black Hole of Calcutta.' I have had first-hand knowledge of it for several years-despite a combine of big-business silence. Unhappily...
Your choice of the Man of the Year reveals an astonishing lack of perspective. You have overlooked the real men of the year for the mere pawn of lesser men, an impotent, historically insignificant tribal ruler. The article itself is uncritical, unTIMEly and bombastic...
Such stuff stared Clevelanders in the face last week as they opened their newspapers. Cartoon strips told the tale of the businessman who nearly lost wife & job for lack of a cup of tea. And a Robert Ripleyan page of wonders graphically illustrated the fact that if all the tea which the world produces each year were stacked up it would make a structure two-and-one-half times the volume of the Empire State Building. Having persuaded millions of his countrymen to purge their way to pepticity through Feen-A-Mint and to smoke themselves into salubrity with Camels...
...anybody came. Neither of them could solve a division problem that had decimals in it. What really kept them going was not the family lawyer's meagre disbursements but Elie's rich brother, a successful banker. When the bachelors' crazy household finally broke up from lack of funds, Elie was settled in a boarding house and Leon was sent to live in the keeper's lodge on his rich uncle's estate. Leon thought he was getting the best of it, but bad old Elie had the laugh...