Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoldering Democrat, let his boom be taken "out in the open"?for the third or fourth time since early Autumn. "Another Andrew Jackson," was the cry. This time, friends of Alfred Emanuel Smith were not alarmed. Reed men, it was understood, were to organize delegations in States lack- ing "favorite sons." The probable result: having been instructed for a Wet, Reed delegates would, if and when his chances died at the convention, have only to exercise religious tolerance to swing to the other outstanding Wet, Candidate Smith. And Senator Reed is the author of the epigram: "Give...
...goal handicaps respectively, which they carry. The University mallet-wielders, with the weight of a ten-goal impost on their shoulders, have previously defeated the 110th Cavalry riders and the 101st Field Artillery players. Their foes tonight are very capable individual players, but there is a decided lack of experience in their playing together as a unit...
...chief trouble, as I see it, is the lack of contact, or rather of the right contact, between student and teacher. I know that the introduction of the tutors has been designed to overcome this defect, but I feel that their wings are clipped before they start by the very nature of their task. Their purpose is to help their men prepare for the general examinations in English-- examinations based on the assumption that knowledge of English literature is to be attained only through a survey of each period in its historical development, and through a study of all representative...
...think that some of the requirements of courses and credits are too rigid. You may feel that our community puts too much emphasis on the sports which we call athletics. But I hope none of these things will discourage you, and I think you will not find a lack of facilities for scholarship. Magnificent libraries and laboratories are open to you, and scholars of experience in almost any field are here to assist your explorations. I think that some of you will find that your greatest handicap will be that which Dean Ezra Thayer once characterized as "the central tragedy...
...figure rises, moves slowly towards the door, sways slightly, impervious to the thunder which rises like a cloud from the floor, trembles in the pendant air. The courage of Smith. Coward! I lack the ordinary manhood to rise and hand in this paper. When I was twelve years old . . . my stepfather hit me on the head with a paper-weight, . . . surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I will sit here, afraid to leave until the last minute has ticked itself into obscurity, because an inferiority complex shall follow me all the days...