Word: defectiveness
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...following Monday Brown walked away with a 7-3 victory. Loss of the Crimson's batting eye was responsible; but this defect was partly atoned for in the 6-2 defeat of Williams...
...critic a magazine for review affords all the delights of lingering in a museum. No single author thrusts his chronology upon you and one is free to ignore the order of the signatures and to follow the lure of titles. The pleasure of finding the defect of this writer cured in the work of another, and of appraising the relative values of each is added to that of finally referring the whole to the absolute, the universal standards...
...second defect is to be found in all the prose in varying degree. There is faulty observation both in imitating nature and in checking up descriptions with the action throughout the story. At the age of sixty-five the alertness of the short, muscular cabinet-makers is questionable. In one place Mr. Hooker's workshop is "small" and yet, later on, Mr. Collision spends half-an-hour in its nooks and corners dragging out furniture. Mr. Hooker needed the space below for his cabinet-making and the same amount of time spent in the attic better fits the picture...
Hving used Mr. Carey's "Mr. Hooker Sells an antique" to illustrate a general defect in all the prose, he will feel ill-treated at this point. These few defects, however, illuminate the general merit of his story. HE has used a knowledge of the lore of antiques in a pleasing manner to set in relief a variety of humbug pervading the traffic in them. One feels a little as though he has been accustomed to writing for an audience to whom quaintness was prime virtue and formal antiquity the breath of life. His story is by far the best...
...medical practice, as fixed by the several States, has kept pace with medical education and that the conditions upon which the medical degree is granted are also fixed by legal enactments. On this account they may not be waived even in the very exceptional case in which some minor defect in a student's preparation would probably not interfere with his ultimate success