Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shokru Saracoglu has gone through many reputations in Balkan and Western eyes: once people spoke of his freshness and enthusiasm; once people said he had grown headstrong, his cleverness inspired distrust. There was a time when Westerners muttered about a hard-living "rounder" somewhere in the Near East whose lack of scruples made diplomatic stability impossible, but that time passed when, as Turkey grew stronger, Saracoglu's reputation grew bright. Last week none of this mattered: only what Stalin could say to Saracoglu, what Saracoglu could say to Stalin; whether Turkey, breaking with Britain and France, would join with...
...finds it difficult," began the pensive dictator, "to explain such a defeat [the 14-day advance of the German Army] only by the superiority of German military technique . . . and by the lack of effective assistance ... of Great Britain and France. The Polish State has proved so impotent and inefficient that it began to crumble . . . with the first military set backs. What are the causes of the situation which brought Poland to the verge of bankruptcy...
...though the shadows of Fred Astaire and such triumphs as "Top Hat" and "The Castles" still lurk wistfully in the background. Director Kanin, newcomer on the movie lots, has given the whole picture a refreshing sense of everyday people in an everyday world,--a sense which too many pictures lack and which makes too many well-constructed plots hollow. It would seem that Hollywood is hard up for plots when they have to resort to such dubious subjects as babies. But from the looks of "Bachelor Mother," may they find bigger and better babies and shoot bigger and better pictures...
...together with this attitude, we must keep faith that we can remain at peace. Perhaps faith can move mountains. At any rate, fatalistic discouragement is the best high-road to the low-land of war. Keep faith, lest the patient die for lack of will-power...
...understanding Poland, says Author Buell, is its peculiar domestic and external problems. They are numerous and acute. Poland has 1) an unfortunate place on the map, between two countries which have more than once collaborated in partitioning it; 2) no natural frontiers; 3) desperate agrarian problems, aggravated by lack of markets and a surplus population; 4) explosive minorities (approximately 3,300,000 Jews, 750,000 Germans, 1,500,000 White Russians, 5,000,000 Ukrainians in a population of 34,500,000) ; 5) precarious political conflicts, kept in check only by the Poles' fervent nationalism. Thus traditional suspicions...