Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial crisis in the United States there has been a change in the policy of the Amtorg. . . . The heads . . . have taken it into their minds that because of the business depression they could squeeze American firms and get better terms. This was an unwise attitude and showed a lack of knowledge of the situation. How could a manufacturer grant better terms when he had to look for money himself? I raised my voice against this foolish attitude. Soon after, Mr. Peter A. Bogdanov [now chairman of Amtorg] came to the United States and brought a bunch of Communists with...
...would be before the camera. The effectiveness of the pastel-tinted act from Pagliacci in The Call of the Flesh makes it seem likely that the cinema will have its opera and that it will bring into existence a new type of opera star-men and women who may lack the volume or tone necessary in true operatic amphitheatres, but who will have the good looks which cinema audiences, perhaps rightfully, demand. Other famed singers who have been successful in more or less serious vocal efforts for the sound-camera: John McCormack (Song of My Heart), a failure...
Nourishing Fat. The presence of fat compensates for a vitamin lack in the diet. Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and Dr. Samuel Lepkovsky of the University of California told Academicians that they had kept rats alive for months without vitamin B (necessary to prevent beriberi) by feeding them coconut oil, lard and cottonseed oil. Coconut oil was most effective, cottonseed oil the least...
...made more powerful. We now produce X-rays of from 6,000 to 250,000 volts and, if we went to 400,000 volts, we could get practically radium rays from an X-ray tube. We know results would be better. But we cannot go that high, for we lack tubes to stand it, and so far no one has dared to tackle their development because of the patent monopoly...
Granted that the Engineering School is not as well fitted for the curriculum revisions experienced by the College, it is as suited for the reception of whatever social benefits may accrue from the House Plan. The complete lack of contact between student and faculty in the Engineering School, the complete disassociation of knowledge and its counterpart virtues gained from a fuller appreciation of human values, above all, the intensely practical nature of the work done by these students suggests that the need of such an instrument as the House Plan is still more necessary there than in the college...