Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Octogenarian Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard's ex-president (1909-1933), has spent a long and active life disproving the axiom that a burned child dreads the fire. The scalding he got when he protested Louis D. Brandeis' appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament" did not deter him from getting himself into hot water again by proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard and barring Negroes from freshmen dormitories. He went on to become embroiled in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as the target of libertarians' scorn. Last year, when he demanded...
...Greene also uses extracts from bees, lizards and salamanders) in combination with the other ingredients of his spinal injection interrupts the nervous circulation of pain. This it does by paralyzing efferent motor nerves (which carry commands from the brain) just where they branch from the spinal cord. For lack of orders from the brain to do something, the injured part relaxes, does nothing. This gives injured local nerves opportunity to heal and to help the injured muscles which they serve, to heal also. Dr. Greene finds his anodyne an aid in the treatment of back injuries, sciatica and shaking palsy...
...blame was placed on Colonel Beltran or his men for the retreat from what had been called an impregnable position. Cause of the retreat was lack of ammunition; blame for the scarcity was laid to the heretofore obliging Republic of France. From its start the course of the Spanish Civil War has been largely decided in European capitals far removed from hostilities. With France apparently no longer a reliable friend, the diplomatic front looked black for Leftist Spain last week...
During May, for lack of funds, John Edgar Hoover furloughed half the 670 operatives of his Federal Bureau of Investigation and closed five regional offices. June was to have meant furloughs for the other half of the G-men,* but last week friends in Congress assured Chief Hoover that the final Deficiency Bill, to be reported out of committee this week, would provide funds to keep FBI at full strength. Two atrocities and a ruined weekend helped produce this good news...
This absolute lack of good neighborly feeling has also spread to the employees, it appears. A correspondent writes us that he was dining in one of the Houses recently when he spied a sinister form moving about in his salad. Closer inspection revealed it to be a worm. Somewhat disturbed, he called the head waitress--one of the more "nationalistic" of the head waitresses--to look at the little stranger. The good lady studied the creature carefully before making any comment: "An Inter-House guest, I suppose...