Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them stew in their own juice; it isn't our war because we can't help suffering when all the rest of the world is suffering. We can't go scot-free. For people who think they can give one a terrible feeling of lack of real appreciation of the responsibility that lies on us, as one great nation at peace today, to be thinking seriously of what we can do to alleviate suffering for civilian populations and to bring about a state of mind which will make it possible to help achieve an ultimate peace that...
...cleaning and bustling about. On the north side of the ugly old office building, in No. 1030 (separated by no more than a locked door and a corridor from 1037), more charwomen were kicking the dust and dirt around. No. 1037 had been vacant since Jan. 24 for lack of a president of the Great Northern Railway. No. 1030 had been vacant since Sept. 4 for lack of a president of Northern Pacific. This week both rooms were reoccupied...
Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree...
...Complete lack of enthusiasm among the common people in Germany" is the principal difference in the Reich today from the conditions of 25 years ago, Charles G. Loomis, instructor in German, who returned this week from Munich, declared yesterday...
...attempt at analysis would be futile. All one can do is sit in awe and reverence before someone who is making stage history with every part she takes. The rest of the cast, fine actors all of them, are forced to play second fiddle, not because of their lack, but her tremendous skill...