Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manila last week a skeptical people looked independence in the face as their Commonwealth's new unicameral National Assembly met for the first time. The visible features of their new liberty in-eluded: 1) a school system almost broken down by lack of funds; 2) a sickly economic situation due to get worse as Philippine markets are lost behind the rising U. S. tariff wall; 3) the necessity to provide for self-defense, by universal military service, a trained reserve of 400,000 men; 4) a virtually empty treasury. Lest the National Assembly's opening be saddened...
...Instead of the street-stabbings and pistol play which Germany, Spain and Japan have recently seen as their regimes changed, French moderation made Paris almost dull last week, though Nobel Prizeman Dr. Alexis Carrel was on hand to call what was happening a "French Revolution" and to attribute the lack of bloodshed to the French people's "unusually strong nervous system...
...earnest Coach Ed Leader, puzzled when his junior varsity beat the varsity by three lengths in a trial race fortnight ago, had desperately switched crews, demoting all but two varsity oarsmen nd putting jayvees in their places. Harvard's amiable Coach Charles Whiteside had commented mildly on a lack of interest. His men, he said, came late to practice. The race reversed this situation. At the finish, Yale's varsity came in six lengths behind a smooth rowing Harvard boat whose time of 20:19 for four miles was within five seconds of the upstream course record. Promptly...
...Davis is no banker. "I probably will be of little use on the Board until another such period [as the post-War depression] comes along," said the slight, nervous, greying farm expert last week, referring to what he considered the sorry lack of coordination in Federal banking and agricultural policy at that time. Born 48 years ago on an Iowa farm, Chester Davis has spent his entire adult life thinking about farmers, first as an editor of a farm paper, then as organizer of Montana's State Department of Agriculture, later as grain-marketing director of the Illinois Agricultural...