Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Team Hurt by Lack of Practice...
...chief reason for the decision of the University authorities to curtail the schedule this year are the commencement of a new regime in charge of baseball at Harvard, and the fact that the team has been severely handicapped in its early games this year by lack of practice before the trip. While these southern teams have sometimes played as many as ten games before they meet Harvard, the University team has seldom been fortunate enough to have been cut of doors for more than a week or ten days. This has made it advisable that the week in southern territory...
...long been a commonplace of students of American government to declare that the two major parties have become nothing but empty labels. Yet, in spite of their apparent lack of divergence, a fundamental difference in point of view has hitherto distinguished them. Republicanism has been identified with capital: Democracy with the working classes. Even this distinction has begun to crumble, however. "The most significant feature of the present Congress," writes the Washington correspondent of the New Republic, "has been the complete breakdown of party lines." The surrender of the Democratic congressmen to Mellon tax-reduction principles indicates that their party...
...many states lack James Cash Penney stores...
...sports window for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His depiction of polo, golf, tennis, baseball, steeplechasing, cycling, handball, swimming, gymnastics, yachting, bowling, billiards, horse racing, rowing, track athletics, football, skating, hockey, soccer, fencing, wrestling, pole vaulting, boxing, trap shooting and motor boating is being hooted at, for lack of realism meets not with the approval of everyone. Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and trustee of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, last week flayed the idea in a letter to the Churchman: "If that [sporting] life is to be symbolized in it [the Cathedral], then...