Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blache admitted that the French feared the potential war strength of their eastern neighbors, since the Germans had greater manpower. He stated tat his countrymen were going to increase their fortifications gradually, although little work was being done at present due to the lack of money and because the present forts were not yet outmoded...
Whether or no United States membership in the League is intrinsically good or evil, is beside the point, a matter of personal opinion. One of the most disappointing aspects of the defeat of the recent Resolution is the lack of articulate opinion in favor of the Court, the pitifully loose organization of the Administration's forces in the Senate. Most significant of all, the President failed to take a strong stand on the issue. He had been informed the time was ripe for railroading the Resolutions, quietly through; the Senate; while considerable blame must be attached to the sources...
...anything about infantile paralysis until you know what causes it Only a small part of the money is to be used for research into the causes of the disease the rest for so-called prevention and cures. Anyway, the trouble is not primarily with a lack of funds for research. We've got money to spend but we haven't got enough ideas on the subject. I wouldn't have written this if I hadn't just spoken with two internationally know medical research men who scoff at the whole idea. They said it was ridiculous to spend money curing...
...Like bumboat boys diving for pennies, book publishers scrambled for Woollcott words of praise for a new work, to splash on the volume's jacket as the blurb of blurbs. He prefers to "discover" some inconspicuous novel and, like a testy old sage, rebuke his public for lack of appreciation. He is the William Lyon Phelps...
...address to the New York Economic Club, that Harvard is undertaking a three-year program of graduate work in social science problems for the purpose of training men interested in public service will be music to the oars of many who have felt concern over the University's seeming lack of interest in affairs political. "The Department of Government," President Conant said, "in cooperation with the departments of History, Economics and Sociology and the Law School, is inaugurating a three-year program of graduate study for a small group of carefully selected men. The second year of this work will...