Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maternal Manganese. Dr. McCollum also remarked that the lack of manganese in food "evidently destroys the instinct of maternal affection" among rats...
...rugby match most appropriately marks the renewal of Harvard-Princeton contests in Cambridge. No lengthy training, no five dollar seats, and no shrieking ballyhoo have any part in the game. The priests of "sport for sport's sake" can burn another hecatomb. For the spectators, any lack of technique among the players will certainly be compensated by the appearance in person of that famous Will o' the Wisp, the amateur spirit...
Internationalism, since the war, has become an intellectual password, often-times of little meaning. There has been a great deal of romantic speculation about world brotherhood with lack of discrimination on the part of the individual in practical details. As a result foreign travel and education have developed rapidly, but frequently blindly...
...means of vacation tours, exchange scholarships, and other channels of international intercourse, many have rushed in to take advantage of the opportunities without sufficient preparation to derive any real benefit from the experience. This characteristic inability either to give or receive anything of value is due to the lack of adequate national education and sufficient personal maturity to make possible an evaluation of the knowledge gained abroad. Greater preparation at home should be insisted upon and the student should have a very definite understanding of what he is seeking and the best way of getting at it. For there...
There are many difficulties to be overcome in any Freshman course, arising from the lack of adequate preparation possessed by the majority of first year men. These difficulties have been largely met by the reorganization in the course administration, and, as a result, the chief responsibility for the success of English A now devolves on the instructors. Yet due to the lack of experience, which hampers many of its teachers, Freshman English does not arouse the interest it should. If the course were to be taught by more experienced instructors and placed on a par with similar courses...