Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortcomings of the New Deal he classified in "five great categories": "moral integrity . . . personal liberty . . . financial and economic policies . . . aid for the less fortunate . . . relations to other nations." He saved for his peroration his retort to those, including Alf Landon, who lack enthusiasm for his proposed "intellectual session...
...legal for the Premier to expend in absolutely any manner he thinks fit-indeed, no Frenchman would be surprised to learn that plug-uglies of the Left were receiving wads of banknotes from the Popular Front Cabinet today to "keep order"-but that any onetime Premier should so utterly lack discretion as to blurt out brutal facts of this kind and give the politicians' show away, last week astonished Europe. But there was no outcry that French Democracy should no longer employ "secret funds" since these are considered a necessary weapon always in reserve for quick action against...
...been made. Moreover 145,000,000 ballots have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries in order to hold "The Most Democratic Election" was a dire expedient against...
...considered the best means of "kicking-off the industry to a good start." To the industry, this year's kick-off looks good because the slight changes in car appearance mean that few expensive changes in plant and tooling were necessary to launch the new models. The lack of newcomers and new gadgets means that dealers can continue in their accustomed sales routines. And prices, already raised some 5% in August, are generally being raised some 5% more with the show. Having ridden a rough road in 1937 because of unprecedented Labor troubles, U. S. automobile men last week...
Muzak music comes from specially made master transcriptions with an audiocycle range far greater than most radios and minus the surface scratching of most phonographs. This makes the reproduction so faithful that hearers can barely distinguish it from an actual performance of an orchestra. Another advantage is complete lack of announcements, commercial or otherwise, to impede its comfortably spaced flow of tunes. Service is 24 hours a day and all subscribers receive a printed program. Network service costing $25 a month is now taken by such Manhattan spots as the Waldorf-Astoria and Childs restaurants and comes in two types...