Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of the coaches was focused on teams B and C, which went through a long scrimmage session against each other. Team B took the offensive the entire afternoon. An effort is being made to uncover some reliable substitute material, to fill the lack which was keenly felt Saturday...
...Today, we find in Germany and elsewhere a frightful lack of available and active capital. The factories are there-the men, the management; but the capital to put these forces at work is not there and must in some way be provided if Germany is to have an opportunity to function normally...
...Katonah, N. Y., Labor went to college. "About 50" was the enrolment, this year, of Brookwood, "the only resident trade union college" in the U. S. Many applicants had to be turned away for lack of facilities. One third of those admitted were women. A dozen industries and international unions were represented; anthracite and bituminous coal miners from Illinois and Pennsylvania had increased in number since last year; foreign workers were present from England, Denmark, Belgium, Japan; were expected from Mexico after the fall meeting of the Mexican Federation of Labor...
Left handed Freshmen have a particularly good chance of making the team. There is new only one left-handed man on the University group, and the squad suffers from lack of practice with southpaw fencers...
...long tradition of cultural activity. This is not true in the United States to nearly so large a degree. Many American college graduates are the first in their line to acquire that distinction, and it is impossible that they should fail to feel the handicap of a lack of higher culture in their early home life...