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Word: lacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survey course Music 1 has in a paradoxical manner driven the Department once more "to the wall". The University has not got the material for study at ready disposal. There has never been an adequate music library, either in crowded Paine Hall or in Widener where lack of complete files makes many valuable scores unavailable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC DEPARTMENT HAS ITS BACK AGAINST WALL | 10/7/1936 | See Source »

...first week of intensive Intramural football practice got under way yesterday, House teams faced a handicap in lack of men. Rainy weather last week has already caused a delay in the dates of opening games, by interfering with early practices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 10/6/1936 | See Source »

...Paris for months and years the franc has been repeatedly hammered by lack of confidence which has ebbed & flowed like an erratic financial tide. Each time panic was in the air, huge shipments of French gold have been piled aboard transatlantic steamers and trans-Channel planes. Such "flights from the franc" have more than once been at a faster rate than they were last week -but with that obstinacy which is a leading French characteristic, Cabinet after Cabinet in Paris refused to yield and cheat possessors of francs by reducing the value of the money in their hands until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fallacy or Victory? | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...ability - was 1.66 per game, lowest in the league. The pitching equivalent of Gehrig's four-home-run feat is a no-hit, no-run game. Hubbell achieved the only such game played in the major leagues in 1929. Left-handed pitchers, according to all baseball legend, lack control both on and off the diamond. Hubbell's secret is that he possesses control, in alarming quantities, under all circumstances. Growing up on a farm in Carthage, Mo., he practiced for hours at a time a form of ingrown athletic solitaire which consisted of throwing stones at a barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Equinoctial Climax | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...creation of Dudley Hall the Commuters were in possession of Harvard's perennial and unsolvable problem. A three-cornered situation existed between Phillips Brooks House where the entire commuting body crowded into insufficient quarters and hampered the smooth running of the Social Service menage; the Dean's office where lack of funds or building blocked reform; and the Day Scholars who saw themselves, with justice, the owners of the soubriquet, "the University's forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Hall Already Boasts Memberships of 140 As Second Year Begins; Only 160 Joined in 1936 | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

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