Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lack of "Collegiatism...
There will be no lack of material for the football team, for the class of 1937 contains its full quota of athletes who have achieved distinction on their preparatory school teams, Among those who should add lustre to the athletic record of the class are T. H. Bilodeau, Jr., star back of Phillips Exeter Academy; G. S. Ford, Belmont High School quarterback and his teammate, L. A. Ecker; M. B. McTernen, Jr., halfback of the Andover Academy team; F. J. Owens, quarterback and captain of the Mercersburg Academy eleven; Emile Dubell, Fairhaven High School fullback; W. H. Lane, Jr., captain...
Patriarch Nakayama & party heartily enjoy the U.S., especially relishing strawberry ice cream, roast beef and fried chicken but regretting the lack of good boiled rice. The Patriarch greatly desired to go to Chicago by airplane but his five secretaries put their feet down. "Suppose you crashed?" said they. In Manhattan Patriarch Nakayama thrice visited the Empire State Building. He admired St. Patrick's Cathedral because he believes Tenrikyo has much in common with Roman Catholicism - its ritual is complicated and he as Patriarch wears elaborate robes. (But Tenrikyo includes rhythmic dances, camp-meetings.) One of Japan's best...
...designed the famed NC flying ships, one of which was the first airplane to cross the Atlantic, and the Shenandoah, first helium-filled dirigible. For three years he was Assistant Naval Attache in London, Berlin, Rome. When the Shenandoah's crash was laid to lack of weather information, Dr. Hunsaker promptly began work on meteorology and radio communications, resigned from the Navy to join the research staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. he, with Dr. Karl Arnstein who built 70 German dirigibles, turned out the Akron and the Macon. He will continue as consultant for Goodyear...
...generally agreed that the U.S. is the unsafest place in the world to have a baby. Some reasons: abortions; faulty technic of physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...