Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carbohydrate [sugars, starches] utilization. It is the hormone of assimilation and anabolism. In this capacity it plays a well-recognized role in the resistance to infection, as is illustrated by the susceptibility of diabetic patients to infections and the restoration of resistance by insulin. Patients with uncontrolled diabetes particularly lack resistance to tuberculosis." Certain European investigators have tentatively treated tuberculosis with insulin, but not to the extent that Dr. Allen has. In his Physiatric Institute at Morris-town-a mansion once owned by Banker Otto Hermann Kahn-Dr. Allen observed that not every tuberculosis patient can endure the insulin treatment...
Although a match is scheduled Saturday with M.I.T., it is probable that it will be postponed, owing to the lack of practice of both teams. Instead, the season will be inaugurated April 23, when the team journeys to Philadelphia to meet Pennsylvania, this is the only match this year away from Cambridge...
Owing to a lack of cooperation among many commuting students in filling out and returning questionnaires which the Phillips Brooks House has mailed to 720 non-resident students, the survey will be postponed indefinitely, E. S. Amazeen '31, graduate secretary of Brooks House, announced yesterday...
...Lindrum, an Australian professional who arrived in the U. S. last month bringing his own baize tablecloth for a series of exhibition matches, most foreign players at least carry their own chalk and several favorite cues. Poensgen brought something else as well: a grave, austere confidence which Van Belle lacked. It was this lack rather than the fact that Van Belle was playing in the U. S. for the first time, or the fact that he had often played Poensgen before and usually lost, that gave Poensgen an advantage in the playoff...
...University team is strong in the field but seems to lack hitting power and the ability to bunch hits to advantage...