Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussing briefly the crowded action and rapidity of change of the past 25 years, covering the existence of the Business School, Dr. Hopkins called attention to the lack of foresight in the present-day hurried world and the antipathy to repose and contemplation on the part of youth today...
Unlike Proust's, Authoress Luhan's diving memory fails to bring up pearls; but it is not for lack of trying, and she is sure they are there. Her natural sympathy with people, she says, "has caused me many inward conflicts, and it has always drawn people to me in the same degree that I flowed out to them and identified myself with them, and it has always made people want to kiss me, to manifest an actual nearness and union, finding it comforting and consolatory. It is the only genius I have ever...
Conches, long regarded as an expert on the period and now known to have been a forger. About Louis XVI's lack of virility ("In the 18th Century natural things were still regarded with naturalness") Zweig is perfectly explicit, thinks it a strong reason for Louis's inert downfall...
...would not say so," said Lawyer Parkes, "but she became infatuated with him. You will hear evidence that the accused always had a peculiar attraction for women, and a peculiar attitude toward them which perhaps I may best describe as a lack of chivalry...
...efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity in the Capital" brought Boss Calles back temporarily as Minister of War. Of the four, whose "loyalty, disinterest and patriotism" Boss Calles praised, three have not been returned to cabinet rank, including Cardenas' good friend & fellow-Tarascan Joachim Amaro, "Father of the Mexican Army," unofficially suspected...