Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subscriber Moran, a thoroughgoing rebuke for his lack of fire. In future let him specify TIME'S errors and, for Truth's sake, protest...
...Henry F. Grady, Dean of the College of Commerce, University of California, lamented the lack of positions for college-trained foreign traders...
...second the first hunched, speed-gathering strides were over. Somehow Simpson had drawn a yard and a half in front. He was running in his famed "classic" style, his head back, his knees pumping out and up. Tolan, built so close to the ground that experts argue lack of wind resistance as one reason for his speed, was at his shoulder, but the gap stayed between them. Simpson's chest broke the tape first. His time of 9.7 sec. was "far" from the record but he got some satisfaction by beating Tolan again that afternoon by three yards...
...there, no lack of fire and verve. Justice Holmes, in his ninetieth year, and his seniors on the Harvard list prove again the eternal truth that age is not a matter of years and days. New York Herald Tribune...
...adoption of a change in the dormitory plans and life in two great institutions, Harvard and Yale. The least honorable page in the history of the American college is that which relates to the life of men students in dormitories. It is a record of poor housekeeping, of a lack of life's amenities, of a dearth of comforts, of want of care for health and of a graver want in nursing in sickness. The beginning of an end of such a history has been made in the current year. The author of the revolution is Edward S. Harkness...