Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletics. What was the cause of success in one case and of failure in the other, may not have been clear to us at the time. Now, however it certainly is plain enough, It was a settled system of training which brought us success track athletics; it was the lack of it which was largely responsible for our failure in other sports...
Walter Littlefield followed. His rendering of Mark Antony's speech struck the audience as being exceptionally good and in the estimation of perhaps a majority of those present he deserved a prize. Noticeable faults were the low pitch of his voice and his lack of energy...
...sameness and lack of expression characterized H. D. V. Tassin's "Defence of Lucknow...
...good. The average weights of the several crews are as follows: Seniors, 163 3-8 pounds; juniors, 166 3-4; sophomores, 158 7-8; freshmen, 163 1-4. It will thus be seen that the junior crew is the heaviest and the sophomore the lightest. What the sophomores lack in weight they make up in form. The '94 crew shows more or less raggedness in their rowing, but on the whole is up to the average freshman crew...
Paul's speeches were delivered for the most part while on his mission tours, and are ten in number. The two longest are those delivered at Antioch and at Athens. In all cases but one he spoke in Greek, and while there is sometimes a lack of that smoothness and polish found in the classical writers, there is at all times a force and directness of speech which is very impressive...