Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford had served five years on a Virginia chain gang. About Middleburg he had been arrested for minor thefts but always released for lack of evidence. When some liquor disappeared from the Ilsley house, Mrs. Ilsley discharged...
...ranks and committed his entire organization to the tender mercies of Adolf Hitler. There are at least 1,000,000 Stahlhelm members in Germany. The move gave Handsome Adolf command of more than 1,600,000 trained men, including his own Storm Troops in Germany and Austria. Only the lack of arms and equipment prevented it from being the biggest, most powerful army in the world. Discipline. Next Nazi move last week was announcement that an official secret police, paralleling Russia's G. P. U., would be set up in Prussia, under command of the ever useful Hermann...
Plain were the beauties of this arrangement. It would insulate Russia from the world with a strip of Russians of purest ray serene. It would scatter masses of ordinary Russians where their "lack of cooperation" could do the least harm. It would provide a citizen army at the border in case...
...which pierces fog and darkness to tell the navigator what obstacles lie near his ship. Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil calls the device a "fog-eye." To watch its first seagoing performance a group of U. S. and British naval observers, merchant marine experts, physicists made the trip to Bermuda. Lack of fog on the outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news. The outlying islands of the Bermuda group caused a clatter. At Bermuda, Commander Macneil transferred his equipment to a British boat for demonstration behind...
Aside from a little difficulty in catching on to the rhythmic lilt and the brogue of the dialogue, easily anticipated by reading the play in question, the factor which may evoke difficulty is the seeming lack of patriotism, shown by their absence, of Boston's political corps. Incidentally, seeing a performance or so of the Abbey players is a fine way of attaining atmosphere for that examination in Comparative Literature...