Word: defective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physically, the Commission found the present generation of U. S. Youth an unpromising lot. From Life Extension Institute, which had examined 100,000 young men, it learned that 75% suffer from "some sort of health defect." Its own Medical Committee, sampling, turned up 33% with diseased tonsils, 34% with defective vision, 50% with carious teeth. Blamed for this condition was Depression, which curtailed free medical care, recreational facilities...
...team has shown an ability to get runs, which has meant good hitting in the pinches, but the players are still shaky in the field, as shown by the eight errors made in the Tufts game on Tuesday. More and more outside practice should iron out this defect soon...
...kaleidoscopic use of visiting professors is a grave defect, although occasional appointments may introduce a little leaven because of new viewpoints. These men take some time to become accustomed to their classroom work and can never bear their full share of responsibility. They lend anything but stability to the department and can contribute little in the way of concerted effort in directing the student's course of study. The sooner this transitional stage of using visiting professors extensively runs its course, the sooner a severe handicap to better organization and productivity will be demolished...
...slipover sweaters be cause his unruly hands could not lace am button his clothes. People treated him a an idiotic cripple. Eventually his innate wit and grit took command of his muscles He went to Princeton, to Yale, opened clinic and two private schools for treatment of the defect (TIME, May 30, 1932) The basis of treatment, Dr. Carlson saic in Detroit last week, is the removal of fear and shame from the cripple's mind...
Good soldier though he was, General Hagood had one serious defect as an officer: he did his own thinking. As long as he confined his originality to the Artillery, his superiors had no objections. After the war he wrote a book called The Service of Supply in which he minced no words, spared no names, and failed to ask the War Department's permission to publish it. The Inspector General called the volume "unmilitary in tone and tenor and at times intemperate in both. . . . Among the uninformed it will bring ridicule upon the War Department." Also unmilitary in tone...