Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great deal of the social trouble today is due to a lack of knowledge of the facts", declared Mr. C. M. Ripley of the publicity department of the General Electric Company in Schenectady, in speaking to the Industrial management department of the Business School today. His talk was called "A Bird's Eye View of the General Electric Company" and has been designed for labor and socialist meetings to give the facts in simple form to those who are misinformed or unacquainted with the labor situation...
...they will be able to swing their clubs on a University course. A happy day, indeed, but far from realization. There's many a slip, as the golfer would say, between the tee and the cup. The plan ought not to be permitted to die in its infancy from lack of consistent support. The Golf Association can be kept hale and vigorous; and a modest course fund should be started. Then, when the alumni see that the project is being carried forward in earnest, they may reasonably be relied on to step in and bring it to a successful close...
...University the deplorable condition of an old and time honored organization, the Chess Club. Up to a few years ago the club held a respected place in the University's activities, but now it has been reduced to comparatively a small group, whose efforts have been hampered by lack of numbers. The Harvard Chess Club is on its last legs. It needs to be considerably strengthened or it will die of inanition...
Still there remains a group of men who do not find their needs supplied by these agencies. Perhaps they lack the instinct for pleasure in play, perhaps they do not know how to go about getting into a game, or finding a partner at a convenient time. For them, Hemenway Gymnasium is an adequate reply. They the necessary equipment for any sort of excise may be supplied "free on request", and the assistant in charge, Mr. Fradd, presides as a sort of "genus loci" to advise and encourage all searchers after individual physical diversion...
...laughs and comic effects, obtained by broad and undignified comic by-play, almost as soon as they were gained. "That inherent majesty of soul, that simplicity of demeanour, and that overwhelming power" which the actor and phrase-loving William Winter once found in Mr. Mantell's Richelieu were grievously lacking on Monday night. In place of these praiseworthy qualities one found a lack of finesse, a lack of dignity, and a rough sketchiness of character delineation which were disconcerting. In addition Mr. Mantell displayed a pronounced fondness for an indefinite kind of starfish gesture that told the audience...