Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lavisse in his great Histoire de France says that "the principal cause of the ruin of royalty in France was the lack of a King...
While most novelists attempt to develop character, few have realized how effectively the principal actor can tell about himself in the third person. Biographies, even though fictitious, seem to lack vitality and autobiographies, when the narrator is of little consequence in world affairs, are invariably priggish. Percy Marks has happily hit upon a working solution of this dilemma in "A Tree Grown Straight" and, incidentally, has written the best analysis of the problems of our generation...
...investigations. No wonder resort must sometimes be made to bludgeoning and badgering. Otherwise in a great many cases, the defendants go through an investigation, not only with reputations enhanced, and Senators looking silly, but also they submit to not the slightest inconvenience or unhappiness. If you lack a rapier, a club or stick would seem a necessary alternative...
...that a child's future success in life can be judged by his first year in primary school. Those students who, at the age of six, showed qualities of leadership, good behavior, concentration, intelligence and high scholastic standing, Dr. Rothney maintains, are now holding jobs, while those displaying a lack of these attributes are among the ranks of the unemployed. The latitude of this statement, valuable as the direction of the research obviously is, leaves ample room for legitimate doubts and questions...
Much of the H.A.A. property is now costing more per capita than it was before the abolition of minor sports. Students today may only dabble in sports which they would like to pursue vigorously, and prospective dabblers are met by discouragement and lack of interest. A $10 burden, assumed collectively, would solve the financial difficulty, possibly aid President Conant's plan, and make available a large and much-missed number of sports...