Word: defectiveness
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...This defect," cabled a correspondent, "although partly concealed by her long coat, nevertheless was evident to the 650 assembled guests. A titter went up as she bent to curtsy to the princes...
Contact Glasses have two applications in ophthalmology; first, in the correction of defects of vision and, second, in examinations of the eye wherein they permit the physician to obtain a view of certain portions of the interior of the living eye-ball which could not otherwise be seen. In the first application they have been used almost exclusively to give useful vision to persons suffering from conical cornea, a disorder in which the front of the eye-ball takes the form of a cone. Such a defect renders the patient's vision practically useless and the trouble...
Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...
...earned for him the recognition of learned societies in many lands. He feels that the average expedition even of the last thirty years has been sent out by schools and other agencies without as thorough equipment as should have been provided. The Harvard school will seek to remedy this defect. Students will be taught, for instance, to make maps of maxim accuracy; they will be trained in the use of wireless for the plotting of their exact positions, and in the skilled use of the new instruments of recent invention...
...Most serious as a defect ... is the loss of a sense of proportion. ... If an individual struggles through two laborious years to solve some minor problem in the internal economy of the earthworm, I am ready with congratulations, although my personal interest in earthworms is of the slightest. But no man can work so long and so intently without the tendency coming upon him to magnify his subject, with earthworms rising in his estimation to the status of pythons...