Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founder of the sect has an attraction if not a predilection for the rich and for crowned heads. His influence upon the members of the Royal House of Rumania has been marked and apparent. Queen Marie, at whose palace Frank Buchman has made long visits, talks with the fetching lack of reserve which characterizes the true Buchmanite, while her second son, weak-chinned Prince Nicholas, one of the regents of Rumania and uncle to small
...Brown team which comes to Cambridge today does not rank with the strong Bruin nines of the past few years. Lack of veterans, particularly on the pitching staff, has considerably hampered the development of the visiting aggregation. Lingham will probably carry the mound assignment for the invaders...
...Brown nine has been hampered for lack of first rate hurlers. Billings, last year's ace, is now starring with the Detroit Tigers. Lingham is slated to do mound duty for Brown today...
Admitting the present ineffectiveness of the League of Nations. Europe still seeks for itself a practical organization for the prevention of war, and at present the Pan-European Union is becoming the subject of considerable speculation. Geographically and commercially Europe is so closely bound that its lack of a congress for the treatment of international problems and for the propagation of deep rooted amity such as America possesses theoretically in the Pan American Union has dangerously inverted its national and economic consciousness. Again, it realizes the menace that Russia once stabilized will present with its deter, mined propagandist program...
...long as it would bounce."-She once realized in a tournament that something was wrong, but did not discover until after the match that her opponent was left-handed.-Her "Poker Face" ("a point I have never before discussed") is due to concentration rather than, as popularly supposed, lack of emotion.-When they pinned the Phi Beta Kappa key over her fast-beating heart she experienced one of the happiest moments of her life.-All players who have turned professional she mentions in the pluperfect tense.-And though she declares Jean Borotra well-named the "Bounding Basque," Betty Nuthall...