Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resident of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and reputedly an experienced explorer. Fleming's early suspicions of Pingle were confirmed when, at the journey's halfway point, Pingle announced that it was foolish to look farther for traces of Fawcett. Fleming and two companions went on alone. Lack of supplies and guides, hostile Indians and physical weakness forced them back eventually, but they thought they came within 100 miles of Fawcett's finish. When they met Pingle again he refused to give them money or transportation back to civilization, on the ground that they had resigned from his expedition...
...department at Canada's McGill University and oldtime popular humorist. Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens' books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero's private life. But he considers that Dickens never completely acquired good taste, thinks this lack and a kind of nervous egotism responsible for the reiterated attacks he made on U. S. literary pirates on his first trip to the U. S. Leacock believes Dickens had no very good excuse to separate from his wife, after 23 years and ten children, considers his manifesto in Household...
...attempt to remedy the ragged playing and lack of cooperation which the team has shown in its previous games, Coach Stubbs has switched Duffey from left wing to center taking the place of Beale and put Kirkland in the former's position. Watts will go to the left side of the defense so that Lane may take his place at right defense...
Take for instance the matter of securing the right kind of government officials and of enforcing the regulative measures adopted by the government. In the articles of the Harvard group there are many references to governmental inefficiency in the past, to the dead hand of bureaucracy, and to the lack of a competent civil service. In his speech on "Social Discipline" in Philadelphia last week Secretary Wallace dwelt on the insufficiency of governmental machinery alone--the government, he said, can only provide the initiative and the framework--but instead of viewing this as counselling despair, he went on to emphasize...
...remaining Republican Governors. New Hampshire's Winant not only heartily endorsed Democratic President Roosevelt's NRA, but urged that its labor provisions be made permanent. "Jungle warfare," said he, "has no place in modern industry. The exploitation of workers . . . has been a deep, underlying cause of our lack of social advance." The Herald Tribune, supposedly behind the Presidential candidacy of its owner's cousin, Ogden Livingston Mills, conspicuously printed: "Miss Lucy Randolph Mason, general secretary of the National Consumers' League . . . said that she had been so impressed by Governor Winant's address that although...