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Word: lacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johansen was the star of the drab affair, making several powerful shots before he finally sunk his-first goal. The Cambridge shot makers were unable to get their team play working smoothly except in a few instances and showed the lack of proper timing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN ELEVEN HELD TO 0-0 TIE BY ANDOVER | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

After Pan American Airways began practical preparations for its line between San Francisco and Canton, William T. Miller of the Department of Commerce's Air Commerce Bureau quietly sailed out to Hawaii to survey the possibility of establishing depots for U. S. airlines to the Antipodes. With similar lack of fanfare, twelve youngsters from Honolulu's Kamehameha School were thereafter packed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Howland, Baker & Jarvis | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...that Harlow is building his desired "60-minute team." Probably most of the men who have been chosen for the Army game will remain in the "A" lineup for the greater part of the season, barring injuries and barring one other eventuality. This one other eventuality is the possible lack of an offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/18/1935 | See Source »

...danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration, the heat and discomfort of the country. Among the whites Geoffrey Gorer encountered lack of ambition, futility, occasional brutality; among the blacks, resignation, degeneration. He found French colonial methods less successful than the English, primarily because the English teach the natives to read, and make colonial administration a career while the French look upon it only as a temporary ordeal. In studying the natives, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three on Africa | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...inevitable that many should be lost in the shuffle; not only in the undergraduate groups but also among the tutors, assistants and older men specializing along certain lines. These men have their day taken up with their respective studies, as do the students, but there seems to be a lack of opportunity for getting together along certain lines of interest not necessarily connected with these special fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUN FOR ALL | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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