Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd, Mr. Griffin called the attention of Australians to the major defect of Washington, D. C. The city, as originally planned, was to have expanded in concentric rings about the Capitol. But what has happened? Washington has grown so disproportionately westward that the Capitol now clings to the city's eastward fringe. A development so lopsided and undignified, decided Australians, shall not recur at Canberra...
Opportunely, two deaths are recorded. A motorist runs over Rose. Fream, his confidence and his financial ability shaken by the discovery of his physical defect, shoots himself...
...Defect: Take issue of TIME, March 14, pp. 38 & 39, heading BOOKS and THE CREAM. "All the books here advertised are good." "No room in TIME for the second-rate." Yet under "Cream of this season's literature" you have as Fiction, Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis as the second book in the list. But on p. 38 under heading of "Bible Boar" you have a scathing criticism of the book in nearly four columns. . . . Such a book in any common use of the word is not "good" and should not be considered or advertised as "Cream." Such contradictions...
...money is put in a school fund. Fines for talking in class, gum-chewing, untidiness swell the total but violated grammar is chief source of revenue. Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...
...armaments the U. S. Navy had fallen below Great Britain and Japan. It now approaches the level of France and Italy. According to the 5-5-3 agreement, it should be the equal of Great Britain. Its chief defect is a scarcity of modern light cruisers and of submarines in commission...