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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR-OARED CREWS TO REPLACE EIGHTS | 12/6/1923 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIFFERENCE OR INFORMALITY | 12/4/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Hokum | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Husky Duskies | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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