Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffering from a superfluity of grain. World conferences engaged themselves with the problem of a cut in the production of grain. Huge quantities of foodstuffs were destroyed. Within a short space of time this surplus foodstuff could have been shipped to the starvation areas in steamers which, meanwhile for lack of cargo, were rotting away in the various world ports...
...nervous. Her husband. Herr Otto Krause who left his insurance business in Vienna to hear the performance, knew it. The battered old doll which she kisses for luck each time she goes on stage trembled in her hands. But the audience saw no signs of uncertainty, no lack of confidence. They saw a Sieglinde who moved about the stage gracefully, so sure of each difficult phrase that she never had to cock an eye on the conductor. They heard a voice so warm and expressive that for once it was easy to believe in Sieglinde's sudden love...
...anything but a disagreeable habit.'' The Piccoli (produced by Vittorio Podrecca). In a window on a miniature stage a four-foot wooden man dressed in the black velvet costume of Don Juan sings a glib, impatient seduction at a peasant girl. He shakes with emotion and lack of breath, turns from girl to audience on the high notes, putting out his hands, palms up, for applause. He is more convincing and formidable than any living operatic Don Juan. Every motion he makes is a shrewd and funny parody of the way human beings move. His chief difference from...
...closing of Widener as a temporary measure dictated by the strictest necessity, and during the present reading period economy has been the only answer to a strong and determined agitation. If military and naval science receive a single penny at a time when the college library is crippled for lack of funds, and when students are handicapped in reading period work by its closing, Harvard will have a very embarrassing question to answer...
...There are two main reasons why Chicago gained its former criminal reputation: collustorn between politicians and the police force and a lack of hard prosecution. And, of course prohibition financed the gangster magnificently...