Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large intercollegiate meetings, little attention has been paid by the officers in charge, and many second string debaters have been cut off in the bud and denied the chance to parade their wares at more modest encounters in and about the college. Coupled to this has been a lack of available coaching from experts in the trade, and thus many who would like to compete in minor and informal engagements have been altogether discouraged from trying...
...Calisthenics to Music were intended primarily for Law Students, a species especially prone to nervous breakdowns because of lack of exercise in former years, but hardy men reported this season and basketball teams were organized in each class, the class winners playing each other for the championship...
...Arlie V. Bock is squarely behind the proposals, believing that the number of Law School men who come to the Infirmary is directly due to the lack of athletic facilities. Another prime mover in the activity is James A. McLaughlin, professor of law, who was mainly responsible for the opening of Hemenway Gymnasium. It is also thought that the dean of the Law School is behind the movement. Dean Pound did not sympathize with such activities among the Law School students, believing that they should spend all their time on their studies, but both Landis and the acting dean, Morgan...
...third quarter of 1937 from 85% to 90% of basic quotas favorable to British producers set in June 1934. Also established for the fourth quarter was a 90% quota. Even then it was doubtful whether producers can fill quotas estimated at 1,050,000 tons for 1937 because of lack of shipping facilities and labor shortages in the caoutchouc kingdoms...
...mother kept a boardinghouse-Noel gave early indications of that instability which marks the born actor. He had tantrums, enjoyed working himself into hysterics over fancied disasters. As a boy he had a good voice, occasionally sang anthems in church: "but I hated doing this because the lack of applause depressed me." At 10 he played his first professional part, in an all-children cast, and knew why he had been born. From then on it was simply a question of finding better and better parts, of having more and more to do with the theatre...