Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fallen to a besieger had fought off attack after attack. Last week the Basques counterattacked where they could, stormed hillsides, blocked roads with tanks, but their artillery was almost silent and their planes were useless. As had happened many times before in this shoestring war, Bilbao was falling for lack of munitions. At a 3 a. m. conference the Basques voted to hold out to the end, but at the front men were fighting with knives and stones. Down the coast road to Santander, 50 miles away, whither the Basque Government had already moved its records, streamed thousands of Basque...
...ball failed by inches to carry a stream. Byron Nelson, following him, gained three strokes at that hole and three at the next, where Guldahl again went into the water. But the way Guldahl played at Augusta convinced Sportswriter O. B. Keeler that his defeat was not due to lack of either courage or technique. Adding one more to its string of lucky or prescient articles (TIME, May 24), the Saturday Evening Post last week carried a biography of Golfer Guldahl written two months ago by Sportswriter Keeler, which, if bookmakers at Oakland Hills had been sophisticated journalists, might well...
This year George Washington Carver has made two speeches before regional conferences on the Farm Chemurgic Council. Before the microphone he manifested a whimsical simplicity reminiscent of Green Pastures, apostrophizing God as "Mr. Creator." He corresponds with Mahatma Gandhi, whom he emulates in humility and lack of interest in money. When he was younger he got up at 4 a.m., went to the woods to pick flowers, gather specimens, observe animals not visible later in the day, commune with...
...Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
...Milwaukee, and wherever else they originally come from, to say nothing of New York and Washington where there is more need for their talents than in Boston and Providence. The fact that more than half of the graduates of New England colleges seek employment here shows an inertia and lack of originality which the gifted New England educational system should certainly have overcome...