Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inborn quality, may not be increased, may decrease through lack of use. Presumably only the congenital idiot lacks it entirely. Versatile people who do a number of things fairly well are likely to be possessors of much G without pronounced special abilities. Geniuses need both G and an extraordinary special talent, although the amount of G required for music, painting and literature is small. Proficiency in geometry (dealing with space) and in arithmetic (dealing, with numbers) are entirely unrelated except for a common demand on G. Dr. Spearman would not define G exactly, said it might have some connection with...
...major trouble with Italian athletes is that they lack the ability to concentrate. Like onetime Prizefighter Enzo Fiermonte, Swimmer Gambi has several strings to his bow. He has been mildly successful as an opera singer, regards swimming not as his major occupation but as a recreation demanded by his lifework of building up his father's Ravenna stable of trotting horses which he hopes to make the best in Italy, if not in the world. Independently rich, Swimmer Gambi has for several years been challenging swimmers like Champion Marvin Nelson to a 5-mi. race...
...notable although incalculable number of last June's medical graduates are not going to make good doctors, the A. M. A.'s Council on Medical Education & Hospitals indicated last week. Their most general failing is their lack of experience in midwifery. Either hospitals connected with medical schools lack sufficient maternity cases for practice or the mothers of the nation refuse to let medical students practice obstetrics on them. Scolded...
Fertility. Lettuce, cotton seed and whole wheat contain comparatively large quantities of Vitamin E, according to its discoverer, Dr. Herbert McLean Evans of Berkeley, Calif. For lack of Vitamin E otherwise normal female animals, and probably women, cannot have babies. But they regain their fertility immediately after resuming proper meals. Dr. Evans & associates have just proved that this vitamin is a rare alcohol, which they now hope to make artificially...
...human system, prevent tuberculosis, cure asthma and common colds, Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger of Monrovia, Calif. reported. But, an asthmatic child needs the extract from five to 20 steers for a single month's treatment, an asthmatic adult the extract from 20 to 30 steers. For lack of steers, Dr. Pottenger begged chemists to hurry invention of synthetic adrenal hormones...