Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone is genuinely interested in the period a more accurate and more vital account may be found in the second volume of "The Origins of the World War" by Professor Fay. While it may lack some of the intimate details of Graham's work it possesses a strength and drama which only reality can create...
After praising the team for its steady improvement throughout the season, Coach Wachter stated yesterday that he was hopeful of a win. In the first games of the year the lack of height of both centers and guards proved a severe handicap. Lately, however, the team has been successfully using the defensive tap. That is, the men have so arranged themselves that no matter which center gets the jump, they have a good chance to get possession of the ball. This opening strategy, combined with accurate hook-passing over the heads of the opposing guards, puts the Crimson within scoring...
George Bernard Shaw's first talking picture appeared at the Repertory theatre Monday without creating anything like the stir that one might expect of the work of the man the Theatre Guild modestly describes as "the greatest living English writer." This apparent lack of interest could go down to one of the few instances of Bostonian theatrical taste. Considered from any angle, this production is dull slow and humorless. The only reason for its being filmed apparently was that Mr. Shaw wrote it, but unfortunately his reasons for indulging in its composition seem unfathomable...
...period. Selections as to the play to be presented have narrowed down to several choices and one in particular which would emloy an all male cast. If this is chosen, it will mean that for the first time in many years the Radcliffe Idler Society will not cooperate, the lack of female roles making its assistance unnecessary...
...Moscow the knowing say that Comrade Voroshilov was hand-picked for the job of Commissar of War by Dictator Josef Stalin because, even with his three medals* "he possesses an almost total lack of ambition...