Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August issue of Threshold has finally laid to rest fears that the magazine would lose its commonsense student appeal with its announced switch to post war problems. The war has closed, to the student publications, so many channel for criticism and three is such a dearth of information and expert analyses on vital issues of the day, that it would not have been surprising if Threshold had lost itself in a maze of nebulous speculation. In stead it has devoted itself to a series of contemporary surveys on subjects close to student thoughts. It can not help but bring...
...former anti-trust lawyer (once general counsel for TVA) and a longtime opponent of radio "monopoly," Larry Fly faced no dearth of problems or opponents...
...labor. The Army & Navy have 750 of these hot-metal guns in use this week. Aircraft makers are using thousands. The new tool is indispensable in 1) the manufacture of airplanes; 2) their maintenance by the Army & Navy; 3) the repair of ailing machinery which, owing to the dearth of metals and machining facilities, would be scrapped or stand idle...
Despite a dearth of cars and evening dress, and a 6:30 curtain, London had its splashiest opening since the blitz last week - a Charles Cochran revue starring Beatrice Lillie. If Big Top itself was pretty routine, the star was brilliant, the atmosphere gala, the audience happy. Looking young as ever, Lillie cut up all over the place, stopped the show with a take-off on a blues singer, never for a second betrayed the fact that her young son had recently been reported missing by the Navy...
...matter to what we attribute this stringently lean theatre year, whether to stifling commercialism or to a dearth of scripts or ideas, the fact remains that the future of the American Theatre lies far from New York. As shown by the great interest in the small community players' club across the country, people are eager to see more of the legitimate theatre. The answer to their hunger is not a number two company of "Blossom Time," travelling up and down the country till the blossoms fade. Broadway professes to satisfy the "road" in this manner; but a worn-out road...