Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sides of the road, sitting their underbred nags with easy grace, rode the rag-tag and bob-tail of Lincoln. Indian fighters, many of them had been, and some still were. They eyed the newly-victoria'd business aristocrats with scorn, and spat tobacco-chaws with a nonchalant lack...
...Deprive a native Solomon Islander of vitamins and proteins demanded by nature and he will eat his neighbor. Give him natural food and he will become ashamed of his former flesh eating. Cannibalism was originally due to lack of meat in the islands. Then it became surrounded by ceremonials. Weaker tribes who had been driven from lowlands and available animal life by stronger tribes took to cannibalism for the sake of a balanced diet, including fats and oils. I believe that the South Sea Islands had no indigenous animal life, except possibly the pig, and it was probably brought...
That night there was the alumni banquet with a substitute hostess. When it was over President Sproul took pen & paper, had it out with Miss Ijams. No punch-puller, he wrote to the Daily Californian, student newspaper: "We are misrepresented by ill-advised zealots who lack balance wheels and by one or two alumni who are so unbelievably boorish as to insult publicly a guest of the university in mere pride of personal opinion...
Three months ago, 4,400 young amateur boxers, most of them so timid, rickety, fat or ungraceful that their interest in fisticuffs suggested lack of good sense, signed entry blanks in the Golden Gloves Boxing tournament sponsored by the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. Last week, this monster tournament reached its annual climax in the Chicago Stadium. A capacity crowd watched a Chicago team win the last eight three-round bouts on the program, beat New York 11 bouts to 5 in the inter-city finals...
...this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...