Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, Dolores Del Rio is back in circulation, more beautiful and versatile than ever. The picture which brings her back. "International Settlement," is trivial enough; it is a by-product of the excess footage news-reel crews brought back from China, and in noted for its phenomenal lack of anything resembling a plot. But it stars Miss Del Rio and it is a good picture...
There are certain reasons why a college president is at a disadvantage in trying out for the presidency of the United States. Important among these is the lack of any organized political machine. Politics, like the poor, we have always with us, and nobody has been able to demonstrate a way of succeeding in polities without some organized backing. Another discouraging factor is the illusion in the public mind that college presidents are dreamy, pensive fellows who have rusticated behind cloistered walls all their lives and hence are unfit to hold the reins of government. Mr. Wells himself seems...
After Yale the quintet has something really on their hands, namely the games with Cornell and Columbia on successive nights, February 18 and 19. The team has run into nothing like this previously in the season and it is here that the question of whether the lack of reserves will handicap the Fesler-men will once and for all be answered...
...Sixty-five thousand people are totally deaf; 75,000 more are deaf & dumb; 200,000 lack a hand, arm, foot or leg; 300,000 have permanent spinal injuries; 500,000 are blind; 1,000,000 more are permanent cripples...
...leader in Kuybishev (formerly Samara). He was arraigned in the harshest terms by Pravda, "because he purged local Communists by tens and hundreds." Pravda added with frankness that Postishev committed such "excesses" in Kuybishev after he had been transferred thither from the Ukraine six months ago as "punishment for lack of political vigilance...