Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them exhibited either the grossest lack of seamanship or the utmost cowardice. Chief Engineer Eben S. Abbott, awakened in his quarters, went to rouse his first assistant. The first assistant was already on his way to his fire station in the engine room. That was also Chief Abbott's station but he did not go there. Instead he telephoned down to see how things were going. He then toured the ship to inspect the fire. Soon he met the first assistant on his way up from below. By this time Chief Abbott had decided that "it was every...
Excerpts: "Most of us know what damage the lack of a normal sex life does to either a man or a woman. What it does in the prisons isn't often brought up in polite conversation, but most people know, just the same. . . . New convicts coming into the prisons are promptly approached by veterans in these vices, and initiated into them if they will consent. . . . What this does to the penologists' attempts to make over men into normal citizens, it is easy to imagine. And what must it do to many a convict's wife...
...pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
...These older men are at the service of the freshman in order that they may guide the newcomer through the first year. But it is not they who are to take all the initiative. It is the Freshman himself who may be called one of the reasons for the lack of success of this way of supervision. He it is who must get in touch with his adviser and must come to him prepared to tell of his troubles. The adviser is a busy man and cannot take time to wait upon his charges. The Freshman does not realize that...
...less loyal to His Majesty, the Laborite Daily Herald, while urging Parliament to start a similar inquiry in Britain, declared: "The use of such names [as the King's] in the intrigues of rival armament firms to sell weapons is further evidence of the complete lack of scruple which characterizes the methods of these 'merchants of death...