Word: lacunae
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...deemphasis of the so-called "impractical" aspects of education; such an apparent lack of interest in foreign countries cannot help but give an unfavorable impression to the rest of the world. At a time when the United States needs friendly allies more than ever before, such an educational lacuna may assume considerable importance...
...forty-five works were presented by fourteen different groups, several of which were new this year. Six of the seven Houses had active theatre groups (only Kirkland, which gave two operas last year, remained silent this year). The only sizable lacuna in the season was the drama that the Harvard Classical Players traditionally have given each spring in Latin or Greek...
...completing the occupation of France, had closed Switzerland's last corridor to the outside world: the land was now an isolated little democratic anomaly deep inside totalitarian Europe. The intensification of German propaganda inside Switzerland led many Swiss to believe that Germany might like to fill the last lacuna in this Pan-Germanic ideal sooner rather than later. German propaganda was attacking Switzerland with a regularity that suggested a conscious campaign. The Swiss Nazi paper Die Front was seconding the Wilhelmstrasse's complaints accusing the Government of "terror, suppression, chicanery and injustice...
...Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln are all maintained by private organizations. The Roosevelt history trove will include the President's books and pictures on the Navy (best private collection in the U. S.) and a sizable collection on the history of Hyde Park and Dutchess County. Chief lacuna in the Roosevelt record for posterity: a diary. The President has started one on three January firsts, never kept going later than January...
...injunction against the balloting, did not succeed by this mere constitutional device, and he called out several hundred special deputies to insure that it would not take place. Well, the Senator called off the election in these parishes; it did not take place, but the implications of this gaping lacuna do not trouble Huey...