Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vocal support he lends to the League of Nations; teresting to note in view of later facts, very heavy financial contributors to Hitler's political success. Political France and political Germany may be at constant swords' points, the Polish corridor may inflame the Nazis, France may quiver at her lack of "security" from another northern invasion--but the lion and the lamb never lie down together with more good followship than these French, German, Czech, and Polish gentlemen when they come together to discuss, as follow directors, the problems of increasing Europe's consumption of armaments. Thanks to the activities...
...great composers from Bach to Stravinsky. To accomplish this, he uses both his skill as a pianist and his serious, but rather whimsical, method of lecturing. The result is a satisfactory course for men who want to gain an appreciation of music. He may be criticized for his lack of poise on the lecture platform, which characterizes a Merriman' or an Kittredge, but his fortunately is subsidiary part of his teaching...
...peoples who have no real quarrel with each other? The jealousy and distrust with which defaulting nations are coming to regard the United States is most unfortunate. To the youth of America is seems unfair that one of the latent causes of future wars is nothing more than a lack of agreement between nations as to the settlement of the "fruits" of the last. The college student of today is conscious of the World War only as on historical paradox. Even those of us who lost relatives in that futile struggle have long since ceased to nurse any rancour, other...
...security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable if not confiscatory taxes . . . lack of confidence, the greatest menace to the revival of normal business...
...mealy-mouthed generosity which characterizes the American attitude toward crime. Perhaps the brevity of American indignation, the sole reason for every crime wave, results from a sympathetic feeling for the underdog, even after the public has been severely bitten by it, or perhaps this indifference stems from mere lack of intestinal fortitude...