Word: defectiveness
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...mitral valve, it can be opened with a tiny knife on the end of the surgeon's finger. But this daring operation will do little good if the valve to the aorta (main artery) is also narrowed, and there has been no way to repair this second defect. Dr. Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia, who developed the first operation, now has another for opening the aortic valve: he pushes piano wire into the valve through the heart, and uses it as a guide for a spreader which opens the valve...
...their self-confidence grew, Americans squeezed most of the religion out of their idealism. Virtue and prosperity became gilt-edged synonyms, and the sky was the limit for a hustling fellow who believed in himself. The mind of the U.S. came to harbor the classic defect of the "liberal culture," a tendency "to regard the highest human possibilities as capable of simple historical attainments." There was nothing in life, by this standard, which American scientists could not measure. Man in the U.S. long ago fulfilled Niebuhr's definition of an "ironic creature"-one who "forgets that...
Sorokin continued, however, to say that "If I had to choose any system in any country. American education would be my choice." The greatest defect, he added, was that the "American school system pays little attention to training of character," which manifests itself in low moral standards, especially is the government...
...also to people who owed him no allegiance but accepted to a greater or lesser extent English symbols of familial and behavioral propriety. His family life was quiet and unimpeachable, he was not addicted to the political and social excesses of his elder brother, and his serious speech defect brought him great public sympathy on the rare occasions of his broadcast speeches. But this would not differentiate him from any well-liked public figure, and to Englishmen he was far more than that. He holds a place in the English society roughly equivalent to that which the Bible, the Constitution...
...success in helping students out of immediate academic pitfalls, the Bureau's most unusual work is concentrated in the field of reading. With the aid of modern scientific devices, William G. Perry, Jr. '35, director of the Bureau, and Charles P. Whitlock, his assistant, try to correct the one defect which underlies many D's and E's--poor reading speed and comprehension. Each one gave a section in the reading class this fall, one at 8, the other at 5 in the afternoon...