Word: defectiveness
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...second major defect occurs in the transfer of patients from the department of mental health to the penal department for defective delinquents, under the Bureau of Correction. As the system now stands, a person may be transferred from the first institution to the second for simple violation of rules...
...destruction of the skin surface by sandpaper abrasion is carried too deeply, the regenerative tissue will be destroyed and primary healing will be prevented. This will result in unsightly scars which may be more deforming than the original defect...
...know their identity, a citizen of the United States has been ..." A found disloyal Government to the worker's career and Government reputation, he added, are now "at the mercy not only of an innocently mistaken informer but also of a malicious or demented one unless his defect is apparent to the [FBI] agent who interviews him . . . We cannot preserve our liberties by sacrificing them...
Political Liability. The reasons for Acheson's troubles lay in part in politics, in part in his own personality. Unlike some of his predecessors, Dean Acheson has no political support in his own right; this might not be a fatal defect, but it did not help to rally Democratic Congressmen to his support. Nor had he come into office -like Hull, Byrnes or Marshall-with a public reputation outside the Department. He had no close friends in Congress and he has made none in his 14 months as Secretary. His learning, his wit and his lucidity are admired...
...long war against the white plague, medicine's two most useful search tools have had a grave defect. Chest X rays and the tuberculin skin test both indicate whether the patient has ever had tuberculosis, but the skin test does not show-and X rays show only imperfectly -whether the disease is still active. Last week, doctors all over the U.S. were calling New York for details of a new, simple test which indicates how active the tubercle bacilli are in the patient's system at the time the test is made...