Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convivial Hunter Rattray is best known for his work in domesticating zebras. The Tanganyika government gave him an experimental farm, where he has succeeded in breaking the larger and more modestly patterned Grevy's zebra to harness. The work is of great interest to African settlers for, though zebras lack the stamina of horses, asses, or mules, they are immune to the deadly tsetse...
...outstanding painting of the show in our estimation is the lovely "Holy Family" by C. Pal Molnar. Vivid coloring, good composition, a modified form of cubism in technique, and a total lack of religious feeling mark this picture. A great and serene simplicity give this work a monumentality almost totally lacking in the other paintings...
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, famed critic, was deeply distressed by George Sand's lack of a lover. To her he sent Prosper Merimee. After a week George Sand sent him back. Anxious to please, Sainte-Beuve replaced Merimee with Alfred de Musset, who was to prove, except for one divertisement, eminently satisfactory...
Tell them all the things they lack...
Educational experiments are essential if advance is to be made. The new plan at Yale has been handicapped by a lack of instructors in order to carry out the original theory of close faculty supervision, and the natural antipathy against such experiments which is evidenced among faculty members and students. In view of the conditions under which the system has been required to function, it is hardly fair to condemn it until it has been given a fair chance. --The Pennsylvanian...