Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better suited to the more informal hours of late autumn work. The daily schedule now calls for five four-oared combinations, the football men being bunched in one so that attention may be better concentrated on the particular faults which they may show as a result of their lack of previous training in the Stevens stroke...
Winter sports, with the exception of hockey, usually start about the first of December on their fruitless course of attempting to interest a lethargic public opinion. A relatively small number of candidates report and there is a noticeable lack of enthusiasm on the part of the average undergraduate. The attendance at important games-- even games with Yale--is not impressive and very few except those actively engaged are interested in the season's outcome. The lack of prestige connected with membership on a minor sport varsity team is only one evidence of the prevailing lack of interest...
...Faith. When the movies go into the pulpit they usually lack conviction. From screen pulpits around the country this picture will attempt to preach its sermon of love and regeneration in a Mission of the slums. Seeking the cold ice of logic, it attacks its prob-lem with snowballs dripping slush...
...obvious, then, why dramatic critics delight in impaling a squirming situation on their argute pens and holding it up for ridicule with delighted cries of " hokum." A show that is " all hoked up " is obviously the work of a group of playwright, author and producer who lack imagination. They are feeding the audience last year's fare warmed over...
Siki showed nothing to warrant the serious attention that has been accorded his abilities. He is a wild, awkward slugger. When his blows do land, they lack abrupt decision. Ills chief merit is ceaseless courage...