Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ballard's four acts, only the second and last succeed in getting the proper response from the audience; nor is this owing to any lack of situation, for the playwright is blessed with a fertile imagination, but rather to the fact that he has failed to make the best of what he had in hand. The first act, for instance, is talky in the extreme. Before there can be a play the audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police...
...investigations and accomplishments in China, where he and a colleague, at the risk of their own lives and under the most trying circumstances, carried on a winning fight against the ravages of the pneumonic plague. After all other Americans had turned back, discouraged by the obstacles of lack of equipment and persistence of racial superstition, Dr. Strong took up the work and in spite of almost insurmountable difficulties carried it to a successful completion...
...note with pleasure the re-engagement of Dr. F. J. Sexton as coach of the Harvard baseball team. During his two years at Harvard Dr. Sexton has been handicapped by the lack of really first-class pitching material and it is a tribute to his ability as a coach that he has in both years turned out teams whose records of victories have been creditable. Dr. Sexton is a man who stands for all that is best in baseball and in athletics. We take this opportunity to express our appreciation of his work and to wish him success...
During the past two years he has coached baseball at Harvard, Dr. Sexton, without any pitching material of more than mediocre ability, has worked wonders with the team. Two years ago it defeated Yale in straight games, and last year, through lack of a good pitcher, lost. What his coaching has meant has been shown in the great improvement in the batting and general all-round work...
...Haven this afternoon. The game should be an interesting one, as Yale's victory over Columbia last Wednesday gave evidence of considerable speed and brought out the individual stars. Cox did some fast work and Tilney kept wide-awake at goal. The team still suffers from a lack of endurance, however, and this may count heavily against it in an encounter with a team that has been on the ice for more than a month. Technology must nevertheless put up a stiffer game on the offence than it has shown so far this season, if it is to win tonight...