Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier in war is so surrounded with a blanket of discipline, fatigue, propaganda, and lack of knowledge of the events, that his great bravery becomes somewhat of a second nature. The person who stands out now against the call of bearing war drums for American involvement in this European war also deserves great credit for bravery. Just in the past year or so has America for given those who stood against entry into the last war. Here and there a professor who was flared as "yellow" or a "traitor" between 1916-1918 is now being rehired. In the last year...
Pointing to the lack of cooperation among the Cambridge welfare boards, the self-styled "next city councilor from Ward?" demanded reforms "to bring order out of the chaos in the civil service...
Embarrassed in the primaries because of lack of funds and poor organization, Maguire last night appealed for more student canvassers and poll workers...
Since this lack of constructive influence is a function of size, the best way to make the library a positive, educational factor is to isolate the one hundred thousand books needed by College students. Such isolation could best be accomplished by construction of an undergraduate Book Center...
...have no reserve of healing "cement substances" in their blood, and not enough of the elements that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin C may also be a factor in causing human peritonitis, for bacteria easily "leak" into an abdominal wound unprotected by healthy, growing tissue. Deficiency of vitamin B hampers restoration of blood-volume after operation; lack of vitamin A may pave the way for mumps, bronchitis, urinary infections, dread...