Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past games the Harvard team has suffered from lack of team coordination to give it scoring drive and thrust. In the game last week with Haverford, which the Harvard five won 32 to 19, the play of the winners was streaky, not a steady, driving style of play. Last Wednesday, when the Harvard five annexed another win, this at the expense of the Brown club, which also went down in a 39 to 19 score, lack of team play was again noticeable...
Stormed the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Unfortunate that physicians should testify beyond their scientific opinions. . . . Extraordinary lack of confidence in his professional brethren...
Rugby practice, for which over sixty men turned out last week, is now somewhat handicapped by the lack of a place in which to play. At present the sessions are being held underneath the stadium, but it is expected that as soon as a week of warm weather has passed, the outdoor fields will be in good enough condition to start intramural games going. The ruggers were deprived of the use of the cage when the baseball players turned...
Despite its sugary sentimentality, lack of restraint, and melodrama, "Happy Landing," the sixth production sponsored by the Professional Players at the Plymouth Theatre, is as amusing as its title is dull. Patterned on Lindberg's meteoric career and his unexampled popularity, it is a satire on American hero-worship and its exploitation. The all-American habit of pulling to pieces and devouring its cynosures is displayed very entertainingly...
...play is fast moving and dramatic; the acting good, except for a certain lack of reticence which characterizes the whole production. Russell Hardie, as the sincere, easily duped hero, is excellent, and the publicity manager, William David, who makes everyone his puppet until almost the end, is brilliant. The play's humor, its best recommendation, is raucous rather than subtle. There is an obvious attempt to "play to the orchestra" with weak puns and irrelevant jokes more suited to a musical comedy. Few of them require much mental effort, and yet many of them are really funny...