Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidnappers themselves swore that they had received orders from General Wallenius and Colonel Kuussaari, that both were drunk at the time, so drunk that the morning after they gave the order for the abduction they had forgotten all about it, which was the reason the kidnapping failed for lack of co-operation and gasoline...
...yard race, and a one-lap relay race. At the same time, in the Old Cage, the final event of the University Fall Handicap meet will be played off. It will be the 35 pound hammer-throwing contest, which was indefinitely postponed last autumn on account of lack of the necessary equipment...
...single point, but whether or not this year will see a clean slate remains to be seen. As shown in the Technology game, team play must be developed if the Harvard aggregation is to go far this year, since in the first game the men showed a decided lack of team play, and relied too much on individual efforts to bring about the necessary scores...
More reflective judgement, and the lack of any startling novelties in the characters of the houses, made it clear that the change would not be as radical as had been supposed. Consequently there has been a reaction among the undergraduates, who conclude that the 250 differences of the 250 students in any house will be a sufficient check to great differences between the houses. Therefore they advise a laissez faire policy...
...Peter Arno's illustrations of a one-line observation made by a dowager in a theater lobby or a young man in a porch hammock is to realize that, so long as people go on saying incongruous or pompous things, this young man will never lack for oysters, for the world is his." The Arno type of humorous drawing is hard to define, easy to recognize. The pictures that make you laugh are ludicrous, often slightly mad but always obvious; the pictures that make you snicker are allusive, satirical, not always to be taken in at a glance, usually...