Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany was vexed by President Roosevelt's attack on dictatorships in his opening message to Congress. So last week Der Angriff, organ of the regimented German Labor Front, solemnly reported in a dispatch from the U. S.: "Lack of officially organized aid for the needy has resulted in frightful misery. In Cleveland 65,000 are in dire need. Numerous hungry persons sit crying, often with small children, in the municipal welfare bureaus begging for food...
...neurologists was that nerve damage in alcoholics was caused by the alcohol itself. Dr. Jolliffe, an international authority on the physiology and pathology of heavy tippling, doubted this. Polyneuritis seemed to him more like a deficiency disease, such as the Oriental malady called beriberi which is also caused by lack of Vitamin B. Because alcohol is a food of high caloric content, it seemed to the scientist that many topers simply did not eat enough food to get enough of the vitamin. In every case where the vitamin intake was sufficient there was no polyneuritis...
...slump he charged primarily to the payment of the soldiers' bonus in 1936, which accentuated inflationary sentiment that got out of bounds in the spring of 1937, drove prices and inventories too> high. As contributory factors he mentioned strikes, increased operating costs of railroads, lack of expansion by utilities and, finally, the attempt of the Govern-ment to reduce its contribution to consumer spending power. Said he: "Monopolistically controlled prices and wages which are now too high must be lowered and prices and wages which are too low, in relation to consumer purchasing power, must be raised...
...South American neuroses of other foreigners were as bad or worse. The rare visitor able to cope with South American life seemed to Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes. The farther he went, the sadder he got. So he named South America the "Sad Continent...
...Citing the large number of accidents last year in skiing and Dr. Bock's report last year in which it was stated that injuries in skiing outnumbered the injuries in football at Harvard, he said, "It is my firm belief that most of these ski injuries are caused by lack of being in condition...