Word: defectiveness
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Still, the fact remains: Centre's win was not a shocking reversal of form. Although the Praying Colonels had dropped a 31-14 decision to the Crimson a year earlier, they had remedied their main defect--a porous line. In 1921, Centre had already defeated Clemson, 14 to 7, V.P.I., 14 to 0, St. Xavier, 28 to 6, and Transylvania, by the whopping margin...
Gross, who pioneered the way for modern heart surgery in 1938 by performing the first successful operation on an inborn cardiovascular defect, is the first surgeon to receive the $2,500 award in the seven years since its endowment...
...common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat this defect as if it were a merit...
...probably no accident that the apostasy rate is higher among Christians than Jews, and among Protestants than Catholics. (Anglicans, incidentally, defect at the rate of one out of every four.) For it was Christianity's natal entanglement with Greek philosophy that yielded the world its first major religion which claimed so purely cognitive an activity as theologizing as one of its most essential modes, and concentrated on the truth value of factual propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man has the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most...
...freshman may fall heir to an agonizing struggle in Hum 5 or Phil 1 with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Theology is certainly one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Methodist in those ordeals--and for one reason or another, Anglicans defect at the rate of one out of every four. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress: one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection of God comes...