Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yesterday," began Dr. Hugenberg, stuttering less from stage frigh than from sheer lack of practice in public speaking, "Y-y-yesterday the Nationalist Party was resolved to unite with the forces opposing the present Government...
...lack of judgment in the use of big type which is chiefly responsible for the protest against it. But let me make it clear that I do not propose to abandon necessary, typographical display in emphasizing the importance of news articles...
...Pamphlet describes, simply but clearly, fairly completely the phenomena of adolescence, reproduction; minimizes the ill effects of masturbation; gives diagrams, with non-technical explanations, of the masculine, feminine, generative organs. The Sex Side of Life differs from other books on the subject in its brevity, clearness, completeness, lack of hokum...
...like its sister Department of Chemistry before the erection of Mallinckrodt, has been too long housed under antiquated, inspiration-deadening conditions. The University at which Louis Agassiz taught in the years when he stood foremost among American biologists, has seen its influence in that field waning, principally from the lack of proper equipment. No science can be content in the twentieth century with the laboratories that were modern in the nineteenth: and it is fitting that Biology, rising to new importance as the study of medicine increases its demands, should be chosen to counter the contention that Harvard is snubbing...
...Judged by the standards of the artist, the Saturday Evening Post is clearly a sickening, a nauseating mess of hypocrisy and vulgarity. What I should like to emphasize, however, is simply this: to judge the Saturday Evening Post by such standards betrays two things: an astonishing lack of humor and an equally astonishing ignorance about the United States...