Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improved man on the squad. He spent his Sophomore year in the shadow of Captain Johansen, whose understudy he was, but this fall, given a new position, he has proved himself one of the outstanding players on the team. His chief asset is a cool head which offsets his lack of experience...
...year from full to half and the result has been to make him an offensive as well as a defensive weapon. He has found his new position more natural to him. D'Autremont is a sound player with three years of experience behind him, but is handicapped by a lack of speed. Rousmaniere's chief asset is his control over the soccer ball which makes him especially adept at passing. A versatile player, he shifts to the forward line when Barnes comes into the game...
...comedy, but it is nothing short of a criminal offense for the authors of a show, in this case Messrs. Nicholson and Robinson, to deprive a trouper like Bert Wheeler of even the smallest semblance of a comic line. In fact, throughout the whole show there is a singular lack of hilarity...
News From Rome, the famed one-sheet poster newspaper of the Fascist Party, is pasted up weekly on walls all over Italy, claims 30,000,000 readers. In copies reaching the U. S. last week, News From Rome exhorted: "Don't whimper if you lack coffee. Be thankful that the Duce took steps in time to provide enough grain-for all. . . . Don't get the idea of hoarding anything at home, especially food. . . . Leave in the banks any money you have deposited. . . . Leave news from foreign sources alone. . . . Politics is not your business. Let Him-at Rome...
...Mills had no secret formula. Everything he worked out could be discovered by an alert coach. He had what most of them lack--real enthusiasm for punting. Of course control has always been sought. Stagg, Yost, Percy Haughton of Harvard, all were aware of the importance of kicking. Mills' contribution was scientific. What he was after and what he perfected was the return-proof kick," Murray claims...