Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Association has shown that it realized this change in its new method of choosing coaches. Where it has been possible there has been a definite attempt in the past year to appoint young coaches who make up for a possible lack of technical knowledge with an increase in interest in the sport. The success of this policy has been strikingly shown in the number of men who turned out for lacrosse this spring and its adoption in other sports will undoubtedly show the same results...
...Last week President Hoover named ten men and one woman to investigate all phases of law enforcement-and the lack of it. This long-awaited Hoover Commission consisted...
...first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with an up-and-down motion of the elbows which has brought him, among newsmen, the title of "The Jersey Buzzard," which he bears cheerfully. Lately his earnestness is reported to have taken the form of deep religious feeling...
...legal battle. Before a Federal Court at St. Louis, the O'Fallon contended that it and the Manufacturers' R. R. were one, and should be so valued. The O'Fallon's excess profits on this basis would have been equalized by the Manufacturers' lack of profits. The lower court sustained the Commission, ducked the question of valuation by claiming that regardless of what method the commission used, the O'Fallon still had profited by more than 6 per cent, so must contribute to the I. C. C. fund. An appeal was taken...
Lunches for the students continue to be a problem because of the lack of proper eating-places in the vicinity of the school. Another attempt has been made to have luncheon served in the school and a woman trained in domestic science is developing this project under the direction of Dr. Fred W.Morse, Jr., who has charge of the hygiene of the students...