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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...season Saturday afternoon on Jarvis field with the Staten Island Athletic Club team, which is composed of men well known as old players on college nines, including Tyng, the famous Harvard pitcher. It was the first time the Staten Island team had played together this season and their lack of practice was painfully evident. The Harvard nine did not do justice to the great amount of careful practice which it has received; indecision, bad throwing, and poor base running were the rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Staten Island, 17; Harvard, 15. | 4/15/1889 | See Source »

...with a picked nine from the Boston Athletic Association. The team included three former Harvard players, Allen, Edgerly and Boyden, while some of the other players were men who have at some time played on the Beacons. The visiting team played a fair game, but the men showed a lack of practice. The 'varsity showed improvement over their playing of Wednesday, and the batting especially was stronger. The base running was poor. The features of the game were Linn's beautiful assist to Willard of a ball which ordinarily would have surely been a base hit, Howland's superb running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard 7; Boston Athletics 1. | 4/13/1889 | See Source »

...will require the sale of a large number of tickets. As the race will surely be most interesting there is no reason why the required number should not be sold. No movement which will raise the standard of Harvard athletics as this promises to do, should be hindered by lack of interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1889 | See Source »

...Yale junior crew has not rowed for two days owing to lack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/12/1889 | See Source »

...only story of this number is "A Strange case of Heredity." Although it is injured by a certain lack of unity, the plot is full of interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate. | 4/11/1889 | See Source »

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