Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this afternoon at Soldiers Field. G. Owen will again be in the box and will be supported by the same team which played against Holy Cross and Middlesex. During the past week the infield has been improving and the team has been hitting somewhat better in the pinches, the lack of which has been noticeable in previous contests. Owen's pitching and control of the ball have also been improving...
...other notable examples of this same lack of coordination have occurred within a very few months. The first one took place shortly before Easter vacation, when two organizations, planning to make trips during the recess, discovered that they were playing in the same city. Obviously this meant that one organization or the other, perhaps both, would suffer greatly, and one of them was forced to change its itinerary at considerable trouble and expense. Today the University debating team meets its opponents from the University of Washington, and the Seniors hold their annual picnic. No matter how little the average undergraduate...
...Owing to lack of players the Junior team forfeited yesterday...
There are lines in "The Governor's Wife" that haunt us. It is a keen rapier that writes them, but it is a rapier which tickles without wounding. Josefina insists on her husband's "lack of character," imploring him to make up his mind about anything. "If it turns out to be wrong, all the more reason for sticking to it." She conceives of her husband heroically: "If he rides into office on horseback like Don Quixote, he will ride out on an ass like Sancho Panza." She leaves no doubt in his mind: "I loved you out of pity...
This committee was appointed because of the lack of any person responsible for the care of the University's athletic guests; except the manager of the home team in question. Since managers of teams are already overburdened with duties on the days of games, it was decided to relieve them of this important work and to place it in the hands of a committee, which would be responsible for seeing that it is done properly...