Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innumerable times and this is not a fish story.) Where he came from was a mystery, as no fish remotely resembling him were ever found in that vicinity. But he was apparently of the dolphin family, about 20 ft. long and snow-white-a friendly soul who for lack of companions of his own species had "struck up a friendship" with steamers. As the daily boat entered the Pass he would come rushing alongside and swish delightedly back & forth in front of the ship and rub himself along the sides, while tourists hung over the rail taking his picture. Sailors...
Extensive excavation is now being carried on in the Eliot House courtyard preparatory to planting a large number of bushes and flowers. Due to the lack of proper soil, loam will hare to be filled in to the extent of about two feet. About 15 trees have been planted recently...
...have a condition in the shoelace industry very similar to the pencil industry, but we lack an institute or an association of our manufacturers to try to stabilize conditions, like is being tried by the pencil institute...
...week Dryice Corp., pioneer in the field and largely owned by Capitalist August Heckscher, merged with its old rival Solid Carbonic Co., a concern closely affiliated with the du Pont interests. Although the merged companies will control more than half of the industry's capacity, they will not lack formidable competition Much of it will come from powerful-privately-held Michigan Alkali Co., a rich concern belonging chiefly to John Ford of Detroit (Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.) and making its solid CO 2 under Belgian Patents...
...hark-from-the-tomb again, for telling on his wife. She assures poor Oswald that some men are born to be cuckolds and that he is eminently one of them. Other stories are of "A Gentleman of England," who, if he was not perfect, "it was not for lack of thinking so"; of Jeremy Gibber, who, by mixing clam-like silences with psychological moments rose to be a leader of ecclesiastical thought; and "Last Straws," a powerful story of post-War aches &; pains...