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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators-suspect came in. Mr. Smith seemed to lack the confidence which he displays in the print on a large signboard in front of his Illinois country home. He looked grateful for every handshake he got, every conversation" he was let into. Once he missed a handshake and had to fumble his coat button. The Senate is his life ambition ? and his seat was nearest the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Seventieth | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...present", added Dr. Erickson, "the school is thriving in spite of the great difficulties--earthquakes, torrential rains and lack of equipment--against which it has had to contend. Several buildings are now under construction, and the boys' dormitory, is already accupied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERICKSON PINS HOPES FOR ALBANIAN GROWTH ON BETTER EDUCATION | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

Long shots, daring chances, and rough scrimmages featured the game. The work of the rival goal guards suffered from a lack of practice, and more goals were tallied from long shots and mad scrambles than is usual in a college game. With five minutes of the second period gone. Everett, Dartmouth right wing, took a mad swipe at the puck, sent it three-fourths the length of the Arena, and sunk it for a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ALUMNI SEXTET DOWNS GREEN GRADUATES | 12/9/1927 | See Source »

Those who have dabbled in touch football and other forms of intramural sport will welcome the step toward organization of this branch of athletics, which will be taken with the meeting of the Intramural Sports Council today. The lack of the system and of the stability imparted by the existence and activity of a governing body has been the most salient feature of the essays made in the field of inter club competition at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN OUR OWN YARD. | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...Middle West it will offer the rare opportunity of seeing his team in action, and for the undergraduate body of Harvard as a whole it is likely to furnish a justification in the eyes of mid-Western critics who are wont to scoff at Harvard's athletic degeneracy and lack of manly qualities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MICHIGAN GAME. | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

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