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Word: defectives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customary amount of good dancing is lacking in this spectacle and this reviewer, for one, likes the defect. Too much dancing would be too much for the ensemble engaged in putting the racket across...

Author: By G. F. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

Bernarr Macfadden, 62, publisher, being free of organic disease or any defect which would interfere with safe handling of an airplane; and having executed five gentle and three steep figure8 turns, three landings and a spiral from 2,000 ft., last week was awarded a private pilot's license by the Department of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Pilot, 62 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...improbable that he will ever design such a device on paper, let alone in a machine shop, although before his mind's eye he may see it in every detail, motion, and defect. He is a great visualizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tesla at 75 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...remedy this defect, the Crime Commission would "correlate state and Federal statistics in one Federal bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS IGNORES POINT OF REPORT POUND BELIEVES | 4/28/1931 | See Source »

Tame and intelligent, Arthur became the playmate of soldiers and of schoolchildren from the surrounding countryside. Only with his subject pigeons was he harsh, and that defect last week proved fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Passing of Arthur | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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