Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered the favorite, but the performances of the other teams in dual meets which have been held during the past month have caused followers of track athletics to doubt whether Cornell's strength in the distance runs will be enough to bring victory to the Ithacans, for they apparently lack balanced strength...
There is to be sure a vast difference between correspondence and lecture courses; and perhaps it would be fair to question whether one really "goes to college" if he goes by mail. But this would be quibbling. There does not seem to be a lack of customers who seek knowledge, either among the young who are fortunate enough to be able to go and get it, or among the old who have it sent to them. The self-made man who would criticise college training must wonder if there is not a good reason for the existence of such...
...whole. For instance, bills have been brought into Congress time after time, before that body has been prepared for them by an expression of public opinion sufficient to counteract the pressure brought on legislators by lumber interests. The main reason for the failure of progressive action has been the lack of popular interest...
...Lack of steadiness in the finishes caused the University tennis team to go down to a 6-3 defeat at the hands of the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills in a match played Saturday on the latter's courts. All but three of the matches went to three sets and were nip and tuck throughout. Captain de Turenne opposed W. M. Washburn, ranking player and member of the Davis Cup team, but although he played on the offensive most of the time, finally lost 7-5, 6-8, 6-3. Fenno and Feibleman were the Crimson victors...
...comes to college with the Phi Beta Kappa key as his only goal who suffers from lack of information. It is rather the immature student who does not grow up until he has had two or more years at college that needs more complete information early in his career, even at the cost of much wasted efforts in some cases, must not only be constantly impressed with the value of scholarship but must not be allowed to be under any misapprehension, resulting from carelessness or lack of interest, as to the details of the curriculum...