Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Part of a group picture taken at a luncheon of the T. N. T. Club in Paris, ridiculing Mr. Pell, a member of the American Embassy staff with implied ridicule of the American Ambassador to France, was surrounded by an article showing either lack of knowledge or intentionally failing to describe that the T. N. T. Club in Paris is a noonday luncheon club of a very representative group of American business and professional...
...leader of a vague anti-Hoover movement. In his headquarters in the Munsey Building he was ready to work openly against the President's renomination. He had no financial backing that anyone could see and what he claimed as "regular Republican" support remained anonymous. What he seemed to lack most of all though was a candidate to put up against the President. Said...
...pilot to death. No satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever reached; but many onlookers, including David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, suspected carbon monoxide. The same hazard-odorless, colorless CO gas from the engine exhaust, soaking into the pilot's blood until lack of oxygen overcomes his senses-may have caused many another unexplained crash. Secretary Ingalls soon put in motion a thorough study of the hazard by the Bureau of Medicine & Surgery and the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics...
...conceived that man might become noble through sin. When Raskolnikov, the young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather to his lack of fortitude in self-justification. Dostoevsky was not irreligious. At bottom he had a primitive kind of Christianity, which thought man became great through suffering. Furthermore, since man was naturally evil and irrational, there was all the more reason he should find refuge in the perfectness...
...salient defect in the Department of Comparative Literature is the lack of any full course devoted to the Literature of the Renaissance, as a whole. There are a number of courses which discuss various aspects of the period, but which treat literature in a cursory manner. Several reasons for urging the creation of such a course are apparent...