Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?The tired business man is unhorsed with a brilliant lack of respect...
...year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious, wilful, has been proscribed by the British Royal College of Surgeons for-bone-setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified in their eyes by the lack of a string of Latin words after his name. He believes he can score over them by healing this crippled daughter of his chief antagonist; she consents, despite a parental frown which cannot straighten her limbs...
...Lack of intellectual curiosity," was the second reason he gave for failures. "To this class belong those men who set their blades to cut off C--'s, and nothing more." He said that a student of this kind is a very great detriment to the college community, for he not only fails himself but also exerts a retarding influence on the men with whom he comes in contact. With him it is not a question of spending too much time on athletics or of wasting time in wholesale fashion, but of doing just enough work to pass and no more...
...Lack of mental equipment," was the third and final reason that Dean Bacon gave for flunking. He added that there are very few cases of failures due to this cause, mainly because of the mental equipment necessary to get into universities now. He concluded by saying that the stiffening of entrance requirements would probably eradicate failures of this nature in the future...
...remaining forward berth. Combs and Rauh, Sophomores, contested for center, and the latter finally gained the better of the argument by making vast improvement in the early weeks of the season. Smith, who had starred on the 1926 five, was at first a doubtful quantity on account of his lack of weight. He speedily dispelled all doubts, however, and made such good use of his 130 pounds that he clinched the open forward position and even rivalled Gordon in value to the team...