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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began his pilgrimage to the sea. Four more are necessary before the one hundred and fifty miles are completed and general civil disobedience can be inaugurated by the manufacture of salt in defiance of the British monopoly. The path of the leader and the seventy-eight faithful does not lack cheers, flowers, triumphal arches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GRAIN OF SALT | 3/26/1930 | See Source »

...plays up to its full value the Hugo-Lincoln story. This attempt in no way succeeds in over-balancing the florid enthusiasm which runs through the pages like a great exotic weed, and is very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: A French Romanticist | 3/25/1930 | See Source »

...complications of plot caused greater haste, there the "merry war of words" between Benedick and Beatrice retarded the play to a slower but more sparkling course. The drama was little altered from the "book version", but in the sure grasp of these players it did not suffer through the lack of extensive alterations for the stage...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: SHAKESPEARE PLAYED TO THE HILT | 3/25/1930 | See Source »

Deduced Dr. Goldberger: pellagra is caused by lack of lean meat, eggs, milk, which poor people cannot afford. All contain Vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poor People's Vitamin | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...seems to me that the discussion of the scrubwomen situation has been predominated by a lack of understanding on the part of the University forces, as is shown by the following three points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rubbing-It In | 3/20/1930 | See Source »

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