Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without at least 5000 he considered that he was shirking his duty. His Pegasus was something in the nature of a plow-horse, who finally arrived at the goal of literary success by plugging away, until hard work made up for lack of speed...
...objects, which will form a part of the African collection at the Peabody Museum, the third largest collection of its kind in the country, are now being classified in the basement of the Museum and cannot be put on public exhibition for some time to come on account of lack of cases to hold them...
...trouble lies deeper than individuals", says the Yale Alumni Weekly in regard to Yale football, "and is essentially the lack of a wining system". In the popular mind of the world's greatest demagogue, the sporting writer of today, "system" is a word considered indigenous only to Harvard, yet most of the winning Harvard plays found their origin in the old "Yale system" which won its namos with customary regularity for over a decade. Most of the vertabrae in the backbone of this system were made up of the imperial Yale triumvirate of captain, coach, and Walter Camp. But this...
...Players will start the contest somewhat handicapped by a lack of team work, due to the fact that this is the first year that their university has taken part in intercollegiate hockey. Coach O'Hare's line-up has not been definitely settled, but a tentative first combination including several veteran players, such as A.J.Provost and C. M.Kontoff, will probably start...
...Boston University players will face the University handicapped by lack of experience in playing as a single unit, since this is the first year that B. U. has attempted to take part in intercollegiate hockey. Coach J. J. O'Hare, has, however, some very good individual players from which to pick his sextet...