Word: defective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remedy this present defect, Professor Beale would require couples contemplating divorce to "go before a clergyman, giving him the opportunity to show them how to smooth over their difficulties." If this fails, the professor would have the case brought before an Episcopal bishop, who should decide "by the facts of the case, and not by any set rule," whether to allow the couple to separate and remarry under the sanction of the church...
...This defect," cabled a correspondent, "although partly concealed by her long coat, nevertheless was evident to the 650 assembled guests. A titter went up as she bent to curtsy to the princes...
Contact Glasses have two applications in ophthalmology; first, in the correction of defects of vision and, second, in examinations of the eye wherein they permit the physician to obtain a view of certain portions of the interior of the living eye-ball which could not otherwise be seen. In the first application they have been used almost exclusively to give useful vision to persons suffering from conical cornea, a disorder in which the front of the eye-ball takes the form of a cone. Such a defect renders the patient's vision practically useless and the trouble...
Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...
...earned for him the recognition of learned societies in many lands. He feels that the average expedition even of the last thirty years has been sent out by schools and other agencies without as thorough equipment as should have been provided. The Harvard school will seek to remedy this defect. Students will be taught, for instance, to make maps of maxim accuracy; they will be trained in the use of wireless for the plotting of their exact positions, and in the skilled use of the new instruments of recent invention...