Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After winning his first major tournament-the British Open in 1933-Densmore Shute did what most playing professionals predicted would speedily ruin his game. Instead of joining the troupe who spend the whole year playing golf for prizes, he calmly continued giving lessons. Shute's lack of competitive sharpening and Thomson's prodigious driving made Thomson a 2-to-1 favorite in last week's final. Out-driven on every hole, sometimes as much as 125 yards, on a course where distance counts, Shute played down the middle of the fairways. Thomson lost the first hole...
...direct result of academic freedom. In pinning on liberty of thought the failure of undergraduates to rise and riot for more serious subjects than Richard, the expert in youth movements has struck to the core of the matter. For although other factors contribute to the Harvard man's seeming lack of interest in the world about him, the priceless heritage of freedom, for which the college for generations has carried the banner, is the undoing of serious-minded group agitation in the Yard...
Nevertheless, the outwards shown of indifference for which the college is notorious betrays an in ward lack of interest in the pulse of contemporary affairs. The even tenor of Harvard ways has lulled the undergraduate to a sense of false security quite out of keeping with the spirit abroad in the world today. For it takes a tremendous force to rouse Harvard men to the core, and thrills such as the trumpet call of the Further War Veterans and the more serious mood which drew men to the Teacher's Oath hearing only show that Harvard's own toes must...
...advice of last year's Committee, the present group is the first one which has elected its own chairman and acted as a thoroughly independent organization. In previous years lack of organization had caused members to rely largely on non-Committee men in formulating plans...
...commenting on the situation, Dr. Bock has called attention to the lightness of the attack and the quick recovery of those who suffered. While the burden of suspicion falls on veal and ice-cream served in the Union, the lack of definite bacteriological evidence make any attempt to fix the blame extremely difficult. Thus, with the University doing all in its power to protect the food from contaminating influences, all the student can do when the plague strikes is to screw his courage to the sticking place and hope it strikes somebody else...