Word: defective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief defect in tutorial work is its conflict with courses. Every student regards courses as more important (because of grades). Hence, the tuter cannot require very much written work or very much reading. But as a supplement to courses, the plan at present, especially with the aid of the Houses, seems to me to be working out very well. Probably it will never work at its best until grades in courses, hour exams, and course requirements are reduced or abolished...
...controlled that they deal 52 different ways. If the pack were always arranged the same way when put into the table, the 53rd hand would duplicate the first. Since this never happens, the table's method of dealing is equivalent to a thorough shuffle. Observers noticed a defect to be corrected in later models: after the table had dealt, it was impossible to tell, unless someone remembered, whose deal it was next...
...late Theodore Roosevelt. He is Lord Grenham, an ill-behaved but jolly curmudgeon whose experience in getting himself out of romantic scrapes stands him in good stead when he is trying to right things between his son and daughter-in-law. In addition to poor casting-a defect common to British cinemas because the best British actors are either on the stage or in Hollywood-this one, second product of Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical shot: Margot (Gertrude Lawrence) and Willie (Owen Nares) squabbling...
...quarter of an inch thick and measuring an inch on each side, was removed (from the back) for biopsy. . . . The removal of this tissue was comparable to the removal of a section from a block of wood. . . . Indeed, the removed triangle of tissue could be fitted back into the defect as accurately as if it were a matrix." What ailed Albino P. P. is any pathologist's opinion. First, tentative diagnosis was cancer. Drs. Fischel & Jorstad believe that P. P.'s lump was one vast, complicated sear, result of the sore on his neck...
...office, gave them to another boy, were ushered to seats by a third. The show failed to begin. "Hey, when does the show start," shouted an impatient patron. One of the boys stepped from behind the curtain. "There has been a slight delay due to a mechanical defect," he announced. "Please be patient." So patient were the patrons that not for an hour did they discover that the boys and the receipts ($4.75) had gone...