Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After noting the lack of discipline and direction which marked the Republican campaign of 1936, Master Mind Michelson pronounced: 'The party, in my opinion, needs a Mark Hanna, or a Matt Quay." First declaring that he does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous...
...Basques held out with deeds of incredible valor, sacrificing thousands in desperate counter-attacks and cheering each other with the thought that their grandfathers had held Bilbao through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque Front, 18 Rightist planes became lost...
...This has been an interesting case, with novel problems of law presented. ... I could find no exact precedent . . . but I did find an Indiana statute which reads: 'No marriage shall be void for the lack of a license or other formality required by the law, if either of the parties thereto believed it to be a legal marriage at the time.' My construction of that would be that if all they did was to sign an application for a license, as they both did, and one believed it a legal marriage...
...features in the Physics department. First, a large group of laboratory instructors interested in the students and with time to spend on them, and secondly an accurate and complete, constantly revisable laboratory manual. These two features would eliminate any need for lectures, and would be necessary because the lack of apparatus would necessitate the performance of the same experiment at widely separated times by different members of the course...
...final strains of "Fair Harvard", sung by the Glee Club et al, were dwindling off and mingling in concord with the towering spires of Memorial, Sever, and Weld Halls. The soothing clutches of night were clasping the Yard in its soft embrace, for lack of anything better...