Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not signify a yearling but means any young animal that has lost its mother in the nursing period and is either reared by hand or left to shift for itself. It may be applied to a calf, a horse, or a lamb. The animal usually shows its lack of proper nourishment, being pot-bellied with a dull lustreless coat and a general appearance of undernourishment. The word is also used as an adjective, the term "dogied'' meaning having lost its mother and showing the effect in lack of growth and poor proportions. Cowboys when driving a herd...
...like entrance by Militarist Araki into the china shop of world diplomacy, the Japanese Foreign Office dared not protest directly, but Yomiuri, a Tokyo newspaper close to Foreign Minister Hirota, cautiously declared: "The Foreign Office is believed to oppose the Conference since the idea behind it is based on lack of real knowledge of the international situation...
...lack of real knowledge" General Araki blithely assumed that the Great Powers, none of whom has recognized Manchukuo, would consent to sit in with Manchukuo at a Japanese-sponsored conference. "I insist," said Araki, "that Manchukuo must be included...
...young ones, sometimes in big secular colleges, more often in small denominational institutions. But fewer & fewer young Pauls respond. A report on them issued last week, the final report of the indefatigable Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, declares that young Pauls are fewer because college students today lack religious conviction, are no longer sure that the Christian message is better than any other. Even if their faith is great they are more concerned with social issues, such as pacifism, or the Christianization of industrial and racial relations, than with foreign missions. More, they are uncertain about the future...
Last year, this course was somewhat handicapped by the lack of adequate laboratory equipment, which was not installed until late in the spring. For its size, this laboratory is one of the most thoroughly equipped aerial photography laboratories in the United States. It consists of seven rooms in the basement of the Geographical building. Two of these are used for the restitution of photographs taken with the 5-lens camera; four are given over to the processes of developing, printing, and enlarging, as well as for copying mosaics; and the last room is used for loading the cameras. This room...