Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathing exercises by which yogins claim to achieve a state of mental sublimity, Dr. Behanan says they merely dulled his wits, possibly due to a lack of oxygen in the brain. Breathing normally, handsome Dr. Behanan, 35, is famed at Yale as a first-class poker player, an ambidextrous ping-pongist hard to beat...
Plans for new smoking and lounge rooms for Law School students in Langdell Hall appear to be suspended for the present as lack of funds prevent the remodeling desired, declared Acting Dean Morgan yesterday...
...calm British termed "unprecedented" last week the lack of respect for their Navy's traditional might shown by Rightist aviators off Mallorca. They impudently dropped 15 bombs, none of which hit the British destroyer Gallant, were repelled by her shellfire, and when London asked apologies these were profusely given -but still those Spanish aviators had been "unprecedentedly" cocky. The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, weary of office and about to retire as Prime Minister, was doing his best to think chiefly of the Coronation, but all Europe realized that Russia, Italy, Germany and France were feverishly cheating on their pledges...
...Schrader, "is made on a basis that is not very clear to me, and I doubt that it is well defined in the mind of the editor himself. ... I regard these elections ... as a somewhat childish albeit amusing pastime, but I understand that in some institutions the possession or lack of a star is taken very seriously and may even be decisive in questions of appointment and promotion. . . . Personally I would much prefer to see the custom of starring abandoned altogether." Dr. Schrader pointed out that "leading scientific workers" may not necessarily be able and active research workers, but simply...
...openings of the mouth, eyes and nose are particularly objectionable, as they retain decomposing secretions in contact with the wound." Infection or disfigurement, declared Dr. Babcock, "from an incised or even the average lacerated wound of the face or the scalp, as a rule, indicates a slipshod operation or lack of surgical skill...