Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which designed it to be as attractive as possible to moderate supporters of both sides. As such it is an excellent starting point for arguments by both wets and drys. it is expecting too much, however, to hope that it will satisfy any large body of people. In the lack of cohesion to a definite plan lies the weakness of those who are trying to promote a sane substitute for the present prohibition legislation...
...imagine almost all of us have been in a submarine," said he in his best Baptist-meeting voice, "We admire its ingenuity and its wonderful technique but we are bound to observe that the lack of space, involving long periods of being unable to stand upright, with vitiated atmosphere very often when submerged, are hardly in keeping with the improved conditions for industrial workers which we now all of us consistently urge at Geneva...
...railroads in China are characterized by wholesale inefficiency in all departments and wholesale lack of experienced personnel. Every railroad in China, with the exception of the Shanghai-Nan-king and the Peking-Mukden, is bankrupt...
...bright, energetic young men who are selected for Rhodes Scholarships from U. S. universities appear to have curious careers once they arrive in England. Certain carping critics insist that the Scholars antagonize the British by their lack of even U. S. breeding, and are hence driven to seek their own disagreeable company. Gentler observers opine that the Scholars have not enough patience to pierce the British reserve. But whether or not there really are such conflicts as these, few can recall ever having heard of a Rhodes Scholar who was famed in England for anything more scholarly than his ability...
Female Sex Hormone. The female procreative apparatus secretes a complex chemical called for want of a special name the female sex hormone. The hormone is carried by the blood throughout the body. It is essential to a woman's health. It gives women their feminine characteristics. Its lack or scant production causes physiological irregularity, often sterility. Women create more of it while they are pregnant than at other times. It becomes available in relatively large quantities in the amniotic fluid and placenta...