Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greed and muddle and monstrous cross-purposes, by old men gobbling and roaring in clubs, by diplomats working underground like monocled moles, by journalists wanting a good story, by hysterical women waving flags, by grumbling debenture-holders, by strong, silent, beribboned asses, by fear or apathy or downright lack of imagination...
...Berlin as the trial closed last week Judge Hoepke, to his intense embarrassment, found it necessary to acquit Dr. Hirtsiefer and his four alleged accomplices for lack of evidence. "The ending of this trial with an acquittal must seem surprising and unaccountable to the public." said Judge Hoepke. "Nobody regrets more than the court that its judgment conflicts with public opinion. . . . This is to be traced back to the fact that the public was not correctly informed by the Press...
...years ago Dr. Brown partly exposed the remains of two sauropods, was halted by lack of funds. This year Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, who uses a dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs...
...shortage of men and equipment the committee blamed lack of funds and a niggardly Congress: ''The evidence . . . indicates clearly that the whole Army, as well as the Air Corps, is short of modern armament, equipment and transportation, as well as an adequate munition reserve." Nevertheless: "In military aviation . . . the U. S. stands second of the great powers insofar as total numbers of Army and Navy airplanes are concerned. . . . However, the fact is clear that . . . our Army combat aviation appears to have been allowed to fall below other leading aviation powers of the world in strength. . . . The fear that...
Patroness of the home, of miners, of mothers in labor, is Anne. One of the most popular saints in Christendom, she has 36 churches dedicated to her in the U. S.. 30 in England, uncounted others elsewhere. Few lack a splendidly mounted relic-some part of her body, some object which she touched. By pious account these were brought from the Holy Land in the year 710 to Constantinople, where they lay in famed St. Sophia until 1333. Greeks, Copts, Syrians venerated Anne in the 4th Century, but it was 800 years before she began to win the hearts...