Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This attitude cannot be from any lack of interest in track sports, because the same men who apparently take no more interest in their own team than in that of the Saugus High School almost fell over each other in their eagerness to buy tickets (at higher prices) for the B.A.A. meet. Nor can it be because of lack of merit in the meet itself. The New England A.A.U. Championship events given in conjunction with the College meet will undoubtedly furnish some good races, while the triangular meet promises not only close and exciting finishes in practically every event...
...University swimming team lost a hard-fought meet to M.I.T. yesterday afternoon in the Boston Y.M.C.A. by a score of 24-29. The lack of long-distance men, divers and plungers because of ineligibility placed the University mermen at a serious disadvantage. The University had only one man to enter in the dive, A. Levy '21, who took first place...
...Pershing by certain officers of the Twenty-sixth division is unworthy of those who should, by their actions and by their attitude, prove themselves fit to uphold the American traditions of military courtesy. There are many in high places who appear to put politics above patriotism, who so far lack dignity and self-respect as to regard themselves in the light of political henchmen rather than "officers and gentlemen...
...best type of candidates, they have heard and read so much befogging news about party politics and party interests that they fear to step boldly forward as Republicans or to the support of any one of the openly declared candidates. Most of the hesitancy is due to lack of knowledge both about the party and about the individuals in it. It was the same sort of uncertainty which made hundreds of Harvard men, nominally Republicans, cast Democratic votes in 1912 and 1916, in the vain hope of lifting the country out of this "political maze...
...lack of space, it will be impossible to print any of these communications, but they all express the same opinion as the one published below...