Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway Melody of 1938 is the first picture in which Miss Powell has had a dancing partner; she performs with George Murphy an Astaire and Rogerish number, I'm Feeling Like a Million, which is good but not as good as Astaire and Rogers. Apparently for lack of other hit material the tap finale is rounded out with tunes from the original and second Broadway Melodies. These are still excellent...
...Three Men Discuss Relativity, Aspects of Science, Limitations of Science and other writings, Sullivan disclosed a remarkable flair for simplification, a style distinguished chiefly by lucidity and lack of pretension. Other eminent popularizers have their personal views of the mathematical chart of time and space, usually involving the relation of Science to God. Sullivan also had his personal view, a view wherein science was not entangled with any gods. He did not care for either preaching or carping. Science was a wellspring of beauty, a source of intensely satisfying esthetic experiences. The construction of Relativity was a beautiful piece...
...London University. Beethoven and Dostoyevski were tremendous experiences which dazed him. He visited the U. S., went back for the War which so shattered him that he was forced to rebuild his life. He wrote a book on Beethoven and an autobiographical novel in which he manifested an impressive lack of interest in politics, business, social gatherings, bank holidays, royal processions...
Although Senator Wheeler grumbled because Broker Young had not ousted leftovers from the Van Sweringen regime and complained that U. S. railroads are controlled by men who lack practical experience, the net summation of a week's rail-road investigation was the chairman's sharp comment on the campaign books. Said he: ". . . I resent the Democratic Committee going to people just prior to their coming here, and soliciting funds. . . . It might give the impression that people had to give money to get proper treatment...
...year after the opening of Spam's bloody, but undermanned civil war, neither Leftists nor Rightists lack able staff officers. What both sides do need is enough troops for effective action on five separate fronts that snake for nearly 1,200 miles down the midriff of Spain. For some months military observers on both sides have cynically propounded a convenient rule: they will concede definite military superiority to whichever side is able to maintain an offensive for three successive days...