Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest drawbacks. The prosperity of a country depends on two things: her natural resources, and the means of getting these to market. China has almost unlimited resources; the interior of the country is one of the greatest agricultural districts in the world. Solely because of the lack of transportation, people on the coast starve, while in the interior there is so much extra grain that it is burned as fuel...
...example of how transportation costs affect the industry and commerce of a country. Transportation of graiff from the interior is usually by means of flat-boats and barges. One would imagine that this would be one of the cheapest forms of transportation there is, since there would be no lack of fuel charges, and the labor can be hired for a few cents a day. Yet in 1917, when wheat was selling for about eight cents a bushel at the place of production, the transportation charges from there to the United States were so great that it was unprofitable...
Before the Dartmouth players came to Cambridge it was suggested that if they won I would be in spite of a lack of pitchers, but one of the most important lectors in their 9-2 victory over the University at Soldiers Field on Saturday was Captain Ross work in the box. Allowing only two hits, in eight innings, passing one man, and striking out four, he held the University team scoreless until the lass few minutes of play. Not until then, at the eleventh hour, with the crowd shouting encouragement, did the Crimson players show power, knocking Ross for four...
...view of the capable showing made by this year's baseball team, the present lack of active interest in a major sport is inexcusable. Matters are fast approaching the point where members or the team would almost prefer to play games away from home, so dampening and critical is the backing accorded them in Cambridge. The Dartmouth game is a flatting time for the student body to demonstrate the strength and sincerity of its support...
...three crews which will leave tomorrow night for Princeton for the triangular race with Annapolis and Princeton on Lake Carnegie are fast being brought to top-notch form. Practice for the past week has been greatly upset by the lack of good rowing conditions on the Basin, a fact which has kept the coaches from carrying out the plans which they had made. Long paddles up-river with short, hard spurts at a high stroke, have, however, enabled the coaches to correct faults in from which might not have been defected in the usual practice...