Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other film, "The Lost Patrol" has been hailed as one of the best pictures of the year. Supposedly, it holds the audience in suspense; its vague moral gives the impression of extreme profundity; and the lack of women in the east gives the movie goer a novel experience...
...might be censored for failing to put more men to work. But the organization could not be catechized for a lack of catholicity in its disbursements. Some items on the Ickes report: for Howard University, $2,294,000; for geological surveys, $4,497,000; for plant industry and quarantine, $6,000,000; for the Alaska Road Commission, $1,596,000; for surveying the U. S.-Mexican border, $4,734,500. In other years, these and such expenditures as PWA made for the lighthouse service, immigration service, public health service, Army and Navy would have gone to swell the regular budget...
...First International was founded in London in 1864 under the aegis of Karl Marx, lasted ten years, disintegrated through lack of centralization. The Second International (Labor & Socialist) started in 1889. It went to pieces during the War, was resuscitated in 1923. Pale pink, and hated by Communists, it still exists but with small prestige. Famed oldtime members: Ramsay MacDonald; onetime Burgomaster Seitz of Vienna; Friedrich Ebert, first President of Germany. The lusty Komintern or Third International was founded by Nikolai Lenin in 1919, controls and directs Communist activities in 46 countries, despises Internationals Two and Four...
...their telescopic eyesight, grain traders long ago spotted a poor rye harvest for this July. They began accumulating large rye commitments, sat back to wait for a price rise. On April 1 they had good news. The rye crop was reported in the poorest condition in 55 years. Persistent lack of rain had parched the grain fields of the Dakotas, biggest of U.S. rye producers. Demand for rye on the other hand, normally 35,000,000 bu. per year, would be bigger, since at least 5,000,000 bu. were needed in the whiskey trade. Only one factor disturbed...
...stir his particularistic curiosity: "It will be interesting to see whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people. They make me feel uncomfortable...