Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeanette are student musicians in Paris. Jeanette has money and Ramon has talent, which facts interfere with the smoothness of the course of true love. He wants to put over his operetta in order to make some money before he marries her. She interprets his desire as selfishness and lack of interest in her, and consequently finds herself another fiance, a gentleman who has the money and influence to enable her to pursue a musical career of her own. Ramon starts to put on his big operetta, "Cat and the Fiddle," when his leading lady walks out because Ramon resists...
...first half of the batting order gets on bases, it's long odds if the lower half can show enough stuff to bring home the bacon. Failure to bring men home was one of the main reasons for losing to Tufts. This weakness is further accentuated by the total lack of pinch hitters...
...encouragement of war preparations in the colleges and universities through the R.O.T.C., and other military devices is vicious to the enlightened purposes which educational institutions should serve. Whereas the United States appropriates millions of dollars for the R.O.T.C., it finds itself forced to close free schools and colleges for lack of funds. This amounts to the manifest declaration on the part of the United States Government that military training is preferable to an education. It goes further, for, the very rights of students to choose whether they do or do not wish to subscribe to such military training courses continues...
Only two things have kept the incredible theatricalities of L'Affaire Stavisky from becoming a truly great detective story: lack of a conclusion and lack of a suitable villain. The conclusion was as far off as ever last week, but to the great joy of Sunday supplement writers a possible villain was produced, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a lawyer formerly of great influence...
...course, true that wars will not cease through lack of armaments, but it is no less true that the possibilities of war are relative to the nations fighting strength. The making of modern munitions involves huge expenses, and if the factious South American countries, and the opposing elements in China were forced by the stoppage of foreign supplies to build their own arms factories, and had to rely on their own output, they would think twice before going to war. Moreover, the curtailment that would result from diminished markets would of itself relegate the armament industry to a far less...