Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boatload of stalwarts that he has collected since he went to New Haven in the fall of 1922. It is not the most finished crew at present, but it is probably the most powerful. If the crew rounds into form at New London, its great power may offset any lack of finish...
Yale's announcement yesterday that prices for football games in the fall were to be reduced considerably is a somewhat tardy aping of the reduction which took place at Harvard a year ago. It is but another addition to the list of afildavits that testify to the growing lack of interest in the great collegiate sport...
...hospital has two 200,000-volt x-ray machines and several smaller ones. An x-ray unit invented by the late Dr. Arthur C. Heublein, which allows the entire body to be flooded by x-rays for long periods, the hospital stopped using last year for lack of money. In 1902 Memorial Hospital acquired the first cancer research fund in the U. S. -$100,000 from Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, relict of Southern Pacific R. R.'s president. Since 1927 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has been giving the hospital $60,000 a year. But all hospitals need money. Memorial...
...tropic regions at or near the sea level is unfavorable to the health of Northern races. Among the things which may exercise deleterious effects may be cited . . . the temperature . . . the humidity . . . exposure to actinic rays . . . absence of normal sources of companionship and amusement, resulting in mental depressions . . . lack of exercise and excessive indulgence in food, alcohol and venery . . . association with natives. ... In my opinion nobody-no white man-lives in the tropics over a long period who does not deteriorate in practically every way." "Children," said General Patterson, "up to a certain age can do fairly well in the tropics...
...were driven by the materialism of the actual world about them into neurotic dream universes of their own. Not until boisterous Whitman shouldered across the country shouting his belief in man did literature bear any relation to actuality, and Whitman failed to drive his point home because of his lack of intensity and paucity of ideas...