Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union and the Teachers Union are presenting two well-known speakers, Andre Malraux, a French novelist, and Louis Fischer of the "Nation" in a review of the Spanish civil war. The acquisition of these men is, without question, an accomplishment. The program shows, at the same time, a regrettable lack of balance, for both are by reputation enthusiastic supporters of the loyalist government...
...chosen because it most nearly approximated the ideal-that of giving students the opportunity to grasp what are or should be the fundamental realities of contemporary society and their evolution from the past. A specific illustration is the current discussion of the Supreme Court, the misinformation expressed and the lack of understanding shown by partisans on both sides. Yet the question is as pertinent and as closely related to any individual as the memorandum on his office desk or the test tube in his laboratory. The new plan attempts to give the student not only the ability to live...
...divided it into two parts: "Sick of the Snow, the Shia Seed'' and "Call of the Wind; Highward Ho." Into these movements he worked tribal tunes, war cries, corn & moon dances of Indians in the Southwest. Listeners enjoyed its orchestral color and primitive drummings, but disliked its lack of coherence...
When You're in Love (Columbia). The ingenuity with which Hollywood scenarists arrange opportunities for the heroines of musical comedies to perform their function of singing is matched only by the lack of ingenuity with which they observe the tradition that all musical comedy heroines must be singers by profession. Now Grace Moore, as an Australian diva named Louise Fuller, yodels a Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields song called The Whistling Boy when a crowd of urchins follows her into a rehearsal hall. When her husband (Gary Grant), whom she has acquired as a convenient way of complying with...
After three postponements due to lack of snow, the field of 30 skiers were rewarded by perfect conditions, fast powder snow and brisk, cold weather Times were fast: the first three men averaged about 30 miles per hour over the treacherous one and one-fourth mile course...