Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a feeling that in Government the students lack realism, lack imaginative material with which to work. For instance, many people have a very vague idea of what the word "parliament" means. To most of them it is only the vague notion of so much talking going on, when it ought to signify a very concrete thing. Anyone who sees a parliament in section realizes that there is no vagueness about...
Medical aspects of the various tribes were studied carefully. In some sections patients were found who were starving to death because lack of teeth prevented their eating the coarse native foods. Most of the disease was due to terribly unsanitary conditions. That the diseases may be prevented in the future is testified by the facts that although members of the expedition were continually exposed to the diseases, none of them fell sick, since average precautions were observed...
...town in lieu of ?3 still owing on the original purchase. On this land Uncas was supposed to have been buried along with his grandson Sam and other "royal" descendants. In 1833 President Andrew Jackson went to Norwich, laid the foundation for an Uncas monument over his grave. Lack of money delayed construction for nine years. Finally a seven-foot granite obelisk marked UNCAS...
...least your unemployed are not starving as they used to starve, and as they are in many countries which you are inclined to think are in better economic position because of the lack of information that they are starving today...
Throughout the interview, Green discussed the demoralization of the textile industry, child labor legislation, business depression, the lack of organization of "white-collar" workers, and union racketeering in Chicago, and emphasized that the aim of the unions is cooperation--not domination in industry...