Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this late season enterprise might be assured was indicated by the size of the turn-out, which will permit the formation of two elevens to scrimmage among themselves and thus bar injuries received from contact with heavier aggregations. The only obstacle seen in the pathway seems to be a lack of practice and organization, but Parker feels that this will be shortly overcome, and that it will be possible, judging by this year's results, to launch another season next year at the close of House football. A tentative schedule has been arranged with games against Rivers School and Yale...
...undecided as to what its functions should be. In preparing for livelihood rather than life it loads the undergraduate with course work, assignments, and examinations, in the attempt to teach him a variety of subjects. Very little energy is left for association outside the classroom another name for this lack of energy is indifference. Despite its superficiality, the ordinary Cambridge society which forms itself round any interest from the ballet to archery, not forgetting politics and chemistry, performs one of the most valuable functions of university life. I believe the Houses are developing from the dormitory ideal to that...
...left the stands, lo, the posts swayed, fell, and were gone; just to show what the Navy from out of Cambridgeport can do when aroused. Incidentally, it will be interesting to see how this Battalion of Death manages to parade as a loyal West Point regiment next Saturday. The lack of uniforms will be most revealing...
This year Washington finished seventh. Followers of the team blamed injuries to players, lack of new blood, rather than Manager Cronin. A young man with a cowcatcher jaw and an enthusiastic Irish disposition, Joe Cronin last month married Mildred June Robertson, adopted daughter of Clark Griffith. Before last week's sale he received the honor, rarely tendered a professional baseballer, of being consulted about the deal in which he was involved...
Today M. André Citroën no longer has francs to fling. For some years now the flashy little maker of Citroën cars, with a lack of originality he once would have scorned, has been leasing the new features pioneered by Walter P. Chrysler. Chrysler "floating power" became in France "le moteur flottant" of Citroën. It helped, but not enough. This year, slipping perilously near to bankruptcy, M. Citroën struck out with a new car of his own which has made Paris sit up and stare. It has front wheel drive, "knee action...