Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain. The direction is intelligent, the supporting cast splendid and the picture, in general, well worth seeing-what it lacks is a couple of drops of genius-and that is no uncommon lack...
...Bates nine will start six of last year's veterans but will be handicapped by a lack of practice. Inclement weather prevented outdoor practice until April 14 and today's game will be the first of their season, their contests so far having been necessarily confined to informal games with their own second team...
...queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
...team are L. O. V. Mann '25, last year's Freshman short stop, A. D. Hoffman '25, and J. J. H. Kerr '25, Earl Evans 2E.S., who played tackle on the second University football team last fall, will be a strong contender for second base. The team feels the lack of pitching material, although J. B. Anastas '23, who was on last year's University squad, is showing good form on the mound...
Indignant at Einstein's reticence about his most recent discovery, Robert L. Duffus, writing in The New York Globe, claims that the lack lies in the scientist rather than in the reporters and the public. The truths with which such men deal, he says, cannot be said to be discovered until they have been made as intelligible as murders or prizefights to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...