Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they go deep into the fundamentals of the game. For the ineffectiveness of the ground attack should not, as it might at first seem, be rung up solely against the men who carry the ball. More than half of the blame rests on the line's slowness and lack of power in charging and the guard's equal slowness in running interference. Even Jack Buckler of the Army wouldn't have been a world-beater last Saturday if his frontiersmen hadn't been opening huge holes in the Harvard defense...
Attorneys for all the defendants except Samuel Insull and Samuel Insull Jr. promptly moved for a directed verdict of acquittal for lack of evidence...
...painter's mother was a well-to-do dressmaker, a onetime modiste to the court of Napoleon I. His father kept the ac counts. Young Camille Corot was apprenticed to a draper but speedily demonstrated his lack of business sense. His father finally let him go. ahead with his painting, gave him a monthly allowance of 1,500 francs. All his life Camille Corot was comparatively rich...
...English 22, however, by agreement with the Dean of the Faculty and the instructor in charge of the course the number of cuts has recently been limited to five per term. This ostensibly has been effected due to the lack of interest of students in attending the lectures. During the years prior to the institution of this rule the attendance had become annoyingly small. With characteristic shortsightedness the feeling has been that the only way to secure an adequate audience was the enforcement of attendance by the check method, allowing only a certain number of absences. In face...
...lectures are not sufficiently attractive to the student, let them be made so. This might well be apropos if this course contained lectures which were on the whole boring and more drudgery. But it is admitted that they are not, and that the real reason for the lack of attendance is that they are not intimately connected with the receiving of a good grade. Such requirements are obviously out of line with the new ideas and freedom of education at Harvard. Men are now thought to be sufficiently responsible to make their own schedules. If, in a course like English...