Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark Hodder would say was, "we deserved to win." But Dewey added, "You can't blame the boys, it's rather a lack of practice that has hampered us. They just haven't had the opportunity to improve." Also the loss of Ayres, first string center due to sickness, and four others who are on probation has made the coaching problem more difficult...
...secret has it been that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government has long needed a housecleaning. Inefficiency, corruption, jealousy and nepotism- old Chinese official vices-have hampered China in waging her war almost as much as lack of guns and ammunition. Japan having seized most of China's coastline and the Chinese having been driven far westward, it was in character that some of China's leaders should turn defeatist and respond to the lure of Japanese offers of position and gold...
...McDonald's shocker, the audience found the neoprimitive chorus and agitated orchestra less terrible than they had anticipated. Aside from a screech or two, Composer McDonald had concocted his score with ingredients that recalled the work of several old masters. Press pundits, long critical of McDonald's lack of originality, loudly assured their readers that the title of his work, Lament for the Stolen, did not refer to McDonald's familiar-sounding themes and harmonies...
...Seiberlings are a big family of little men. Frank A. Seiberling had six children; his brother Charles, four. None is over five feet, six. But what the Seiberlings lack in height, they make up in energy and enterprise...
...development in Victoria's character, but also emerges as a man whose wisdom is sprung from many years of contact with the soil. If Ernest Clark, moreover, as Albert's brother, Ernest, was not so completely a provincial German prig, Werner Bateman's portrayal of Albert would lack the all-important sympathy of the audience. Disraeli, Lord Conyngham, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Melbourne, and the gay Lady Jane are some of those who have their brief but impressive moments on the stage...