Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted columnist added, "But I parted company with Harlem's P.S. 184 after 6b. One of my classmates just informed me that a club has been organized to protest my lack of education with a document which is supposed to show I was an honor student...
...audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works out the routines for most of their numbers, then teaches them to her. She now has no screen rivals...
...years the people of no big power have wanted to go to war-not even those of Germany, whose dictator keeps telling them not to worry because no one dares fight the mighty Third Reich. One of the factors constantly working against a general European war is the lack among Europe's most powerful nations of a disposition to fight...
...Forty or 50 colleges are offered for sale each year. Reasons: lack of operating capital, reorganization of college-owning churches, retirement of college-owning individuals, desire of some owners to go into a different business...
Eventually, after much suffering-more vividly dramatized by lack of milk for the baby than by mangled bodies-the Corbetts reach Brest. In an ending that crackles patriotically with high hopes for England, Mrs. Corbett and the children embark for Canada, Peter returns to fight...