Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factors which is keeping alive, year after year, the prejudice against Harvard in many sections of the country, especially the Middle West, and preventing many men from choosing Harvard as their college is a lack of authoritative knowledge as to present day conditions. There are many who still regard Harvard as a college exclusively for rich men, or who believe that it is impossible for a man to work his way through...
...form than they have so far this season. Presenting a powerful attack, and a defence that successfully baffled its opponents, the University swept over the Ithacans for a 7-3 victory. In this game the Crimson twelve proved that it possessed all the qualities it had formerly appeared to lack, and gave considerable promise of a successful outcome in its contest on Saturday. In connection with Cornell's defeat of Yale, however, it must be remembered that the Elis' weakness was largely due to the lack of three regulars, who will in all probability be back in the line...
President Obregon, a soldier, a revolutionist, but also a clever international politician, realizing that the lack of great leaders in his country was due to a considerable extent to the poor intellectual standards of the people as a whole, has determined to learn from these much despised American all that he can. By a scheme of cooperative scholarships, established jointly by variout state universities in the west and the Mexican government, the training in the United States of a goodly number of Mexican young men each year has been assured...
...lack of attention given to the proposal of Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts that the quotas of the several states in the House of Representatives should be revised so as to conform to the Fourteenth Amendment, looks suspiciously like an attempt to dodge an issue. President Harding and his party's leaders in Congress are not anxious to hamper the growth of their political influence in the South by any obnoxious investigation of the negro disenfranchisement, prevalent in many states below the Mason-Dixon line. The South has always been extremely sensitive on this point and it is indeed expedient...
...meeting was the result of a decision of the Student Council, impressed with the need of some sort of organization in the University to correct a state of affairs which has been steadily growing worse. That state of affairs has been a continuing disorganization of school clubs, a notable lack of hospitality for visiting school teams, these faults within the University itself; and with respect to the University, not only a distinct lack of correct information in the secondary schools, but also a noticeable presence of misinformation and misrepresentation...