Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noteworthy qualifications for his difficult job, one that should not be overlooked is his amazing capacity for sustaining the antics which Washington's otherwise highly judicious newspapermen consider to be comic. Rated according to ordinary standards, many a quarter-hour of the semiannual Gridiron Club shows displays a lack of grace, pertinence and dexterity sufficient to horrify the least critical beholder. Gridiron Club high jinks are by no means the only such doings by which the President's endurance is regularly tested. Last week, his principal social relaxation after five working days in which 1) the directors...
...Franklin Roosevelt, whose failings do not include lack of aptitude for satire, found all this strikingly inept, he did not say so. Instead, with a superb show of good manners, he thanked his hosts and went home. After the National Press Club's dinner last November, Franklin Roosevelt retired to bed with acute indigestion. Last week's frivolities left his health unimpaired...
Manpower. "The days when a people's militia can stand against trained troops are gone forever. Government failure has been due, in the largest degree, to lack of trained officers and noncommissioned officers. Suspicious of the loyalty of the regular officers who joined them, led by left-wing writers, parlor pinks and Communist tub thumpers, the Government has been unable, even with considerable help from competent foreign advisers, after a year and one half of war, to develop an army capable of fighting on equal terms with Franco's men. Franco's battles have been fought...
Near the turn of the century, nutritional scientists discovered that the wasting nerve disease called beriberi, which had afflicted rice-eating Orientals for thousands of years, was caused not by a harmful agent that got into the body but by the lack of a beneficial agent which did not get in. A Dutchman, Christian Eijkman, found that chickens which ate nothing but polished rice developed beriberi, but that if the chickens ate the rice coatings they got better. For a quarter century Dr. Robert Runnels Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories labored to extract the mysterious "vitamin" from rice coatings, finally...
Scheduled for yesterday afternoon, the University Wrestling tournament was called off for lack of contestants...