Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very pleased with what I have observed about Harvard University, having discovered an upstanding group of young men with well balanced interests. You have more athletics, moreover, than are found in German universities and I attribute a fine appearance to the lack of excessive drinking prevalent in European student bodies...
...Lack of change, probably more than any single factor, has spoiled Marion Talley for Manhattan's most musical. When she made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
...Dartmouth team is composed of individual stars while the University booters are relying upon teamwork and an excellently coordinated defense game. The chief weakness of the team to date has been inability to score accurately, and not lack of aggressiveness. Coach Kershaw has been working all week on various forward line combinations, and expects to make frequent substitutions...
...need stay out of social service for what he thinks is his lack of qualifications. Any hobby that a man may have or any activity he himself may have taken part in, can usually be turned to advantage in boys' work. Harvard men can as a rule give some of their time to three or four extra curricular activities. In the past, the leading men that the college has had have given their time to some form of social service, because they believed in service and because they recognized the cash value of social service. Gordon Huggins...
...reason for this seems to lie in the lack of coordinancy among the cheer leaders. They rarely get off to a simultaneous start, and the result is a hodge-podge of response from the student body...