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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lack fine discrimination when you say under "In Reno."' June 15, "True to the canons of Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson. . . ." Every western writer of "westerns" knows that Hickok was a two-gun law man; one of the genuine gun fighters of the West. That Kit Carson was a "mountain man" of the fur trader period; a time before the gunslinging, gunfighting period when "Colt was King" at Dodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Forster twins are females in appearance. Both lack anal openings, which is an early embryonic condition. Like young animal embryos and full grown birds, each has a single opening, or cloaca, for its urogenital and rectal passages. The tube which joined these children contained the great gut (colon) of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gut-Joined Twins | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Tilden's own newspaper accounts of the matches were revealing. Excerpts: "It was greater severity, both off the ground and at the net, that beat Kinsey. . . . He lacked the punch to hold me off. . . . His lack of power was due to his long battle with Albert Burke. ... I was at my best and have seldom hit with greater accuracy and severity combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tilden Still Top | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...harbor, conveyor belts are sending thousands of sacks of wheat, grain from last year's bumper harvest, into the holds of British, Japanese, French, and Italian ships, from the huge elevators of the Soviet grain trust. Half a mile away men are falling unconscious on the streets from lack of nourishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caterpillars, Sirens, Valuta | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...white man myself and some of my best friends are Negroes. Ordinarily I pay little attention to evidences of ignorant race prejudice, but when a magazine which boasts of accuracy and lack of bias publishes a statement like the above, I am surprised and shocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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