Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responses, 129 promises, seven complaints that the taxes were too high, one part payment which amounted to less than the day's telephone bill ($25). Meantime, in another part of Treasurer Lindheimer's office, another crew of assistants was busy -without any lack of success-in mailing out the first checks of a $4,000,000 refund to 285,000 real-estate taxpayers, ordered by the Illinois Supreme Court, which held part of Chicago's 1934 tax assessment illegal...
...Antibes. has put up tents in its gardens, erected a string of midget-sized bungalows on its beach. Despite the spacious comfortable hotel rooms only a few yards away, diplomats, statesmen, cinema celebrities have preferred to live like beachcombers in abodes which for the most part lack plumbing, hot water, screens...
Vitamin E. In 1922, Physiologist Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California discovered that lack of a certain principle of wheat germ, tomato and lettuce oils made laboratory rats sterile. In 1935 he isolated Vitamin E, the active principle of these oils, reduced it to its pure, crystalline form. Vitamin E regulates cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural...
...Kaden's keen dental eye is right. Governor Chandler's upper right and left laterals are missing. This lack is abnormal but not uncommon: the Governor's 12-year-old daughter Mimi lacks the same two teeth...
...lent on three bases: to U. S. exporters of agricultural products, to U. S. exporters whose capital has been pinched by foreign exchange restrictions (i. e., blocked marks in Germany), and, most important, to U. S. exporters who wish to sell capital goods to foreigners who lack cash. Sample deal took place year ago when China bought 20 locomotives and equipment with credits of $1,500,000, half supplied by the Export-Import Bank, half by American Locomotive Sales Corp. and Baldwin Locomotive Works. Despite the war, China has punctually met all payments on this debt, as have virtually...