Word: defective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authorities were unable last night to explain the cause of the accident, commenting that it could have been other a mechanical defect or merely misjudgment on the part of one of the drivers. "These things happen once in a while," one official said, "but not too often...
...themselves, but in the relation between cancer and normal cells. Cancer cells are "antisocial" or "immoral" and run wild in the body; the test may measure the resulting disturbance. It is possible, Drs. Burr and Langman speculated in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, that cancer is a defect "in the design of the organism." If later experiments prove this to be true, they reasoned, there would be no one cause of cancer. Instead, it might turn out that a constitutional defect related to electricity makes the body vulnerable to one or many agents. But like all the other...
...major defect in the present method, by which the government maintains a minimum price by loans or purchases, is that consumers often suffer by high prices. The Brannan plan continues government loans and purchases for storable goods, about 25 percent of total farm output, but changes the price-setting formula. Producers are satisfied with this method and want it retained...
After the first few flights have proved it airworthy, the airplane is turned over to a military test pilot as his "project." He takes it into the air, loaded with automatic recording instruments, to find out whether it lives up to the contractor's guarantees. Often a hidden defect, perhaps unknown even to the manufacturer, drags the plane out of the air. The pilot's best bet is to make an emergency landing on the broad lake. Bailing out alive from a modern jet plane is difficult; it is also part of the test pilot's code...
There is one major defect in this album: John Finnegan '47 is not so good an arranger as Leroy Anderson '29. This becomes obvious when the "Serenade for the Blue' is compared with the old Yale medley. Unfortunately, most of the new medleys are Finnegan's, which makes for a uniformity of form, cadence, and orchestration that is unfortunate at the least...