Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardent pro-Soviet I am glad to see you adopt the Russian editorial policy you have since in your ridiculous, asinine over-criticism you expose nothing but your lack of real knowledge of Soviet conditions. Anyone who reads your "Russias" and "Religions" and "Transports'' and "Miscellanies" for the past few months knows that such things and conditions don't actually exist. They know that although you pretend to be impartial you are really being governed by a moneyed class of pseudo-Fascists. Harknesses and Hearstlings, I'll mention no specific proof of this lousy editorial policy...
Where, we rise to enquire, and on what grounds should we feel disheartened? Our slap in the face comes from our general lack of desire to browbeat intellectually our dates. We're proud of our athletic prowess, but we don't wear our Phi Beta Kappa Keys to dazzle our girl friends...
...regards Stillman Infirmary, the conditions are equally appalling. The building and equipment are obsolete. The building is drafty. In periods of epidemics it is often overtaxed. A long ride through frigid corridors is necessary to reach the X-ray machine. The lack of proper shower and bathroom equipment is another source of annoyance to patients. Indifferent or incompetent supervision often results in students with contagious diseases being confined in wards with others who are susceptible to affliction...
...squad's lack of condition and the hindrance of having to practice in Briggs Cage will probably prevent the new brain staff from working the boys very hard until the time comes to move outside, probably the first day or so after vacation...
Last year another Big Red, Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, denounced "the fact that right now 450,000 carloads of manufactured goods are awaiting shipment in our warehouses for lack of rail transport!" Last week Pravda, careful not to blame anybody, grumbled: "The country can no longer allow backwardness in this vital link in our economic chain. The interests of Socialist construction, the interests of production and, last but not least, the interests of national defense demand a solution of the railroad problem this year and not later...