Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Muddle No. 3: Captain Marmaduke R. Alderson had lost three engines and the fourth was wheezing for lack of fuel when he finally landed, virtually dead-stick. With no power to smooth out her landing the Cavalier struck heavily on the crest of a mountainous wave, bashed in her hull...
...fastest skaters in the U. S. were not disgruntled over lack of gallery as long as a handful of ear-muffed gentlemen, seated in a little wooden coop, remained on the scene. For they were officials of the American Olympic Committee and they were selecting a team of eight to represent the U. S. in the Winter Olympic Games at St. Moritz next February...
Once every few months, and always for the summer, Elizabeth Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...
...might encourage the merging of the Educational Records Bureau, whose examining methods are notably progressive, with the conservative, horribly inadequate College Entrance Examination Board. When conferring with, headmasters about candidates for admission they might him as to the academic inadequacies of today's Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds. In brief, Harvard can urge the schools to modernize their teaching of both method and content, also to give depth and integration to their training, so that the existing gap between schools and colleges may be transformed into...
...program for limitless armament spending through Congress.*. . . Every Christian voice should immediately and in unmistakable terms let Congress and the President know that this attempt to drag religion through the hell of a new holy war is resented and repudiated by the churches. . . . This [is] revelation of his utter lack of comprehension of the mind of at least the Protestant churches...