Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which defeated Rindge Technical School 22-1 last Tuesday, R. P. Field and R. H. Keegan have proved a successful battery combination in all practice games and are expected to hold the Cambridge team in check. The infield is working together well at present, although somewhat handicapped by a lack of outdoor practice...
Mexico's failure is explained simply enough by her utter lack of tradition. In government, above all else, the past is of supreme importance. So long as there is a succession of selfish military dictators, and so long as the populace remains illiterate and irresponsible, orderly traditions are impossible. A sound electorate cannot be evolved in a single year, or even in a single generation, especially in a generation filled with constant strife and revolution. Even in France, where conditions were far more favorable, a stable republic was not assured until nearly a century after the fall of the Bastile...
...with hesitation that one would criticize any part of the play, but a review would would not be just that did not take notice of the two points in which it falls below its own standard. There is a lack of humor to liven the interludes between specialties, and it is to be regretted that, with so much talent to supply it, there is no original music from opening to final chorus. But on the whole, "Satni" as one of the best amateur performances which Boston has seen in years, would furnish a delightful afternoon's entertainment to the most...
Bowdoin has an inexperienced nine which has been even more handicapped than the University team, by the lack of outdoor practice. In a tie game with St. Anslem on Saturday they exhibited a rather ragged brand of ball, Clifford and Cook at first and second in particular showing a tendency to throw the ball away in the pinches,. At the bat, although they hammered the St. Anslem pitcher in the first of the game, they were unable to hit in the game, they were unable to hit in the last sessions when the score was tied. Although the bases were...
...certainly have need of some kind of training. If the dead in the cemeteries in France could rise and speak to you, at least one-third of them would say, "We are your dead. We are not the dead of the enemy. We died of American neglect, of your lack of vision, of your lack of preparation. We went to death willingly, but we were almost unavailingly sacrified. You drafted us in July and the enemy, killed us in September. You did this after four years of warfare and you are going to do it again." God has given...