Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture painted by Professor Francke and by others who have been abroad recently of German students struggling with poverty, hunger, lack of every kind of equipment and even textbooks, to satisfy an intellectual craving which is not diminished by material hardships is an almost incredible one, from an American point of view. That any one should possess such an unquenchable thirst for knowledge seems strange; that an entire student body should possess it is more than remarkable. Occasionally, it is true, seniors on the verge of graduation feel a faint and indefinable sensation of regret that there are still some...
...Rome is the only city in the world which has a universal history, and we must continue her glories. Imperial Rome must live again. Indeed, it lives already in spirit, because we have the means of doing it and we do not lack genius...
...Rome there are two main classes of problems, problems of practical necessity and problems of moral grandeur. The first consists in lack of houses and means of communications. This will be faced and solved immediately. The problem of greatness consists largely in removing the other problems, that Rome may be worthy of her history and glory, which constantly renews itself. To dp this we must have faith and tenacity, such as the ancient Romans...
Leonard Liebling, famed critic, has compiled a list of musical festivals which are scheduled to take place in England and on the Continent this Summer and Fall. American tourists will find no lack of orchestral and opera fare, as they scoot from place to place, greasing their way with florins, francs, crowns, lire, rentenmarks...
...operator, to Mabel Doris Mercer, daughter of George A. Mercer (onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie) and divorced wife of Percival Harden, publisher of The Club Fellow (a weekly similar to Town Topics?only more blatant); in Manhattan. He was divorced (TIME, March 3) by Anna Harvey Kresge, who charged lack of affection, sulking...