Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to being hurt by the loss of Johnson, the Harvard team was handicapped by lack of practice due to the rainy weather conditions prevalent this spring. At first, it was intended to shoot the match regionally but a last minute decision made it necessary for all teams to go to Annapolis. As a result, the Harvard team could not present its full strength. Other teams of this district were unable to send any representatives and Harvard was the only college which sent a corps from outside the Naval Academy region...
...billion dollars a year, and "in 15 years there may remain no Federal securities for the Reserve bank to purchase or lend upon." Open-market paper, too, has been "shrinking rapidly." Thus the Federal Reserve would sooner or later be forced to rediscount security collateral loans for lack of other loans upon which to exercise its rediscount facilities. It would have to accept stock market collateral or else find itself of small importance and usefulness. Mr. Simmons did not believe that a conservative, careful system of rediscounting security loans would result in an increase in Federal Reserve funds applied...
...climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence. Yet he succeeded in putting out the flames, in coming to earth alive, champion Champion, holder of the world's altitude record...
...minute. In four minutes he had climbed two miles. He took a sniff of his oxygen to keep his head clear. The climb became only 2,000 feet a minute. He climbed three, four, five, six miles. The engine began to slow down for lack of air. He turned on the super charger to increase air pressure in the carburetor...
...both Penn and Navy demonstrates more clearly than before that the real hopes of Harvard crew this spring lie in the discovery of a stroke oar with form and stamina to send a crew over a four mile course. There is no doubt but that both the University crews lack only the pace-setters to raise them from the ranks of underdogs to the position of victors...