Word: defectiveness
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...affects the circulation of blood and lymph and thus becomes responsible for producing in the tissues the point of lowered resistance in which germs locate and propagate. It is also responsible for a region of stagnant blood, or some-times of stimulated circulation, which may result in excess or defect or perversion of the growth or function in structures directly influenced...
...larger faculties more and more work is being done by administrative boards or committees. This is a very efficient system but tends to debar from discussion a large number and keeps the president from being in close touch with the general sentiment." It is to remedy the admitted defect of the present form of faculty meeting, and at the same time re-establish the former good, that the new council of sixty has been called into being. With a provision for rotation in office, it should permit "all the members of the larger faculties to serve in the course...
...queer people in the Graham book and treated them as incidental to his main theme, his play might have made more sense. As it is, Whitey seems less than an immortal hero but Hal Skelly's teetering performance gives the play what vitality it has. Its fundamental defect is that libeling Hollywood has long since ceased to be sufficient grounds for drama...
...Speaking of tennis," he continued, "every man has a blind spot. You may not believe it, but Johnston's was a low forehand drive which showed up when he became tired." A blind spot, as Tilden explains it, is a mechanical defect probably acquired when one is learning the game and is never corrected, however hard the player attempts to do so. The reporter asked him if he had a weak point in his game...
Dean Leighton has in his annual report called attention to a very real defect in the educational system at Harvard, in the lack of sufficient individual attention and advice from members of the Faculty to students when it is most needed, i.e., during the Freshman year. Lack of time, lack of interest, sometimes lack of knowledge prevent Freshman advisers from performing any but a purely mechanical function. The problem is first to get advisers thoroughly acquainted with the individuality of each advisee, and second to get them to use that knowledge to guide every Freshman into the field of endeavor...