Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement last Friday to the Freshman polo team that it would play Yale within a week, before a single day had been devoted to outdoor practice, is the capstone of a long era of mismanagement and lack of cooperation between the Athletic Association and the polo management...
Despite the fact that an unannounced benefactor has offered three horses for polo purposes, the management has been unable to accept the gift because of the lack of necessary funds to feed and groom the animals. The result is that, with the meager $1200 subsidy of polo, the team can never use its own horses in games away from home. This fact is made even more annoying because there are no contests scheduled in Cambridge this spring since there is no playing field...
...prosecuted relentlessly, and he could not be appeased until a considerable fine was imposed; but he paid the fine himself. Many a bold push was made to ascertain his age; yet, however suddenly the question came, or however craftily one crept from date to date, there was a uniform lack of success. "I see Allibone's Dictionary says you were born in 1805," a gentleman remarked. "Some statements have been nearer, and some have been farther from the truth...
Saturday's races revealed the lack of endurance of both University crews occasioned by constant rough water in the Basin which greatly reduced the number of long, hard rows. As a result Coach Brown is now starting his men in earnest on the long grind in preparation for June...
Supreme Court. For 70 years the U. S. Supreme Court has sat in a room in the Capitol less impressive than many a county court room. Cramped in between House and Senate, the Justices lack adequate offices, take their cases home to work on. A new Supreme Court Building (ten millions) of classic lines will soon rise opposite the Capitol, north of the Library of Congress. To make room for this new structure the "Old Capitol"?in which Congress sat after the 1814 fire, in which Civil War prisoners were housed, in which the National Woman's Party...