Word: defectiveness
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Most obvious defect of the bill was that it made no provision for raising the money for the payments it authorized to farmers who observed crop restrictions, despite the fact that the President last week reiterated his insistence that provisions for raising any necessary funds above the $500,000,000 now allotted for crop control be included in the bill. Another weakness of the bill was that the House Agriculture Committee was known to be drafting a bill with which it promised to be exceedingly difficult to combine the Senate's measure in conference after passing it. Third...
...picturized school reports still have one grave defect. They have not been able to find text to match their illustrations. Their words are still the bumbling literary efforts of pedagogs, usually dull, often pompous. Sample from the Los Angeles report...
...practically no ball carrying, he is in an ideal position from which to run the team. Paving the way on almost all plays with his blocking, it is he who can best gather first hand information on the Indian defense and he should be the first to defect a weakness. Nor is he open to the temptation of calling his own signal...
...been discovered in past instances that 80 percent of those afflicted with stuttering started under the age of six and 25 per cent of them admitted that one of their family or an intimate friend had been troubled with this speech defect...
...woman's family had the abnormal ears-mother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-great-grand-father. The lop-eared patriarch had 91 descendants, of whom 21 inherited his ears. Everyone affected had both ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped, in no case passed on the gene to children, grandchildren. So Dr. Potter concluded "There can be no doubt that the peculiar ears of this family depend upon a single dominant gene. . . . Our patient may expect to transmit ears...