Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese boys love to play just as much as American boys. All they lack is the opportunity. Give them a chance at basketball and in a remarkably short time they acquire the same speed as American boys. Our Union Theological Seminary team won the Foochow city championship last fall, and I would back them against any seminary team in America...
...tennis! The only limit to its popularity and production of real stars is the lack of courts. On the school campus we have no room for courts so I leave our tennis net on the porch nights so the boys can get it at daylight and use our private court before breakfast. I never dreamed that volley ball could be so exciting and full of sport until I came to China. In fact, it is the most popular sport among the schoolboys of Foochow, and its simplicity has attracted the majority of our students to engage...
...chief fault comes from a lack of rehearsals. A singer will not agree with the orchestra about the tempo. Ensembles will not move along together, with a resultant flagging of gait. The action, too, is apt to be unsynchronized. It is perhaps over much to expect that a troupe charging a modest fee shall go in extravagantly for such expensive things as rehearsals...
...Emperor of Japan has recently conferred the sixth class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun upon F. R. Lack, now a special student at the University. This honor was bestowed on Mr. Lack in recognition of his services as an International Western Electric engineer in connection with the installation of the first printing telegraph in Japan...
...Lack joined the Western Electric Company in 1911 as an assembler and is now at Cambridge on leave of absence...