Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...match between Ward and Laverack was well played, but both men showed a great lack of practice...
...years it has been distinct in the Lawrence Scientific School the Department has grown steadily but under rather adverse conditions. The little house on Holmes Field beside being inconveniently situated provides very cramped and unsatisfactory quarters. It is improbable, however, that any change can be made at present as lack of funds is a positive check in this instance. In regard to the future of the Department it is felt that a training in architecture, as in other professions, should in most cases preferably come after the gaining of a degree, and that it should be more of a Graduate...
...important to call attention to the entire lack of available life saving apparatus at the Weld boat house. In previous years there has been a whitehall boat, the property of the club, moored to the float for the express purpose of putting out to the rescue of shipwrecked oarsmen, but unfortunately it is no longer seaworthy as it has been left in the river all winter. There is now a boat belonging to the City of Cambridge placed at the boat house by the I ark Commission for life saving purposes, but as it is chained and padlocked...
Victor Hugo was of plebian origin; hence the vigor of his physical constitution, the violence of his anger, his intellectual and moral health; hence also a certain lack of taste, of tact and of delicacy. During his youth he wandered abroad, in Italy and Spain, where he accumulated a stock of impressions. These impressions received in the course of his travels became fruitful in the dreams of his later years...
...Storrow had two eights out from the Freshman squad. The men went directly from the machines to the river this year without any work in the tank and so their work, as was perfectly natural, showed a complete lack of watermanship. The men look good material, however, are very well boated, and showed yesterday plenty of life...