Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free State Deputies' oath of allegiance to King George; and cancellation of the £3,000,000 Irish land annuity to Britain. What the new Irish President faced last week was a series...
...last week. The stomach is lined with mucous membranes which exude a sticky substance called mucin. Mucin lubricates the stomach. It also combines with hydrochloric acid in the stomach and slows up the digestive action of pepsin. It occurred to Dr. Samuel Julian Fogelson & associates of Northwestern University that lack of sufficient mucin might have a great deal to do with ulcers...
...brains had legs, most brains would be all legs, or so Walter Boughton Pitkin, breezy professor in Columbia University's School of Journalism, seems to imply. For its gangling lack of intelligence the Professor takes the world to task. Its follies, like its females, show an infinite variety, but there seem to be only nine major categories of human stupidity. "These intermarry and blend in all sorts of combinations. . . . Some rise to glory, while others are hunted by the police. The history of them all is the history of our race, in the main." Though abysmal dullness abounds, Author...
...houses have men on the Council, the elected members are still chosen by their class and are supposedly representative of it. The decline of the importance of the classes as distinct social units which has been indicated in the discontinuance of the Junior Dance and the lack of interest in class elections, has become more pronounced with the evolution of the House Plan. It is only reasonable that members of the Student Council should cease to be elected by their classmates, only their associates in the Houses...
...that day, but towards nightfall there dropped down over the great stone buildings a profound silence. There is something calm in a busy city that is uneasy and restive, for it is the calm of men skulking in dark alleys and of vague shadows on brick walls. The strange lack of sound sent a stir through the King's Guard and they swaggered a trifie obviously as they strode about the streets that night...