Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach. He is also to be held accountable for the mental attitude of his players. They must respect him. When he shows that he is unable to control his team and his team's spirit, he should be removed far more quickly than a coach who, perhaps through lack of material, has been unable to garner a sizeable amount of victories...
...past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail public works projects, throw thousands out of work. He has divided huge estates into small peasant holdings, but has been unable to advance the peons credit for stock farm equipment, seeds...
...Kraus continued his fine breaststroke career with a Freshman record-breaking 1:09.4 shattering the previous record of 1:10 which he set last December against Lynn. Although the Yardlings took all but two of the first places, their lack of seconds and thirds, especially in the 50 free-style, and in the backstroke, made Boston a continual threat to a Harvard victory...
Speed is one department in which Hodder is not worried. The Freshmen have displayed it frequently in games and practice sessions. It is the apparent lack of good stickhandlers which troubles him most...
...than usual. However, Coach Petersen has developed three spring-board men, who have never dived in competition before, into divers who may be counted on as strong contenders for points. Smith, Bowman, and Davidson, in that order, are the Yardlings; No. 1, 2, and 3 divers. Because of their lack of experience, it is only hard work that will shape these men into reliable point-winners. Petersen has been watching them daily, and has commented favorably upon their willingness to work hard...