Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conditions grew so chaotic that the editors of the Government newsorgan Izvestia took a hand, invited officials to confer with them, later devoted three columns to shocking revelations and a blunt analysis of what was wrong in the Agriculture Commissariat. Izvestia blamed everything on the lack of a "single coordinating authority which would direct the work in a rational way." Higher officials were wasting their time in endless conferences which brought no results. Sleepy workers were staying on their jobs sometimes 24 hours a day, fearful of showing a "lack of zeal." Said Izvestia: "Real work usually begins after...
...Kendall, dean of the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1913 to 1922, severe Author Herter lives a retired life at Hot Springs, Va.. far from the fevered world of exhibitions and studios. Although her book stimulates readers to think for themselves, it also shows her grave limitations: lack of contact with, and a prim insensitivity to. the genuine achievements of the movement whose misadvertisement she abhors. Few lovers of art will agree with her acid comments on Grand Old Man Henri Matisse, some of whose recent paintings and drawings, including Rumanian Blouse (see cut), pleased visitors last week...
...Express correspondents sometimes slip hot news items past foreign censors by addressing their cables to "lack Glass House, London...
...Sandys case flurry about the delay in the delivery of arms. England did not dream that it was as unprepared for war as was later revealed. It had no inkling of how it was suffering from a dangerous slowness in production of all types of arms and from a lack of supplies and of organization. It is not inconceivable that such a desperate situation was a primary cause of what has happened in Europe in the last few months...
...problem of the lack of positions open to new settlers because the climate does not permit them to work in mines, and the fact that new settlers have to replace English executives already in charge of the mines, again preclude any hope of a large number of refugees finding work in the mines...