Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touched by formal courses and to delve deeper, by intensive reading, into his field than he might do in a normal program of study," as one of the fortunate few has put it. There may be things wrong with the Advanced Placement--Course Reduction program, but certainly its greatest defect now is just its smallness. Few administrators would say only one of every 125 students has the intellectual capacity and integrity to meet requirements for Advanced Placement, and there are Undoubtedly more than thirty-five students in the college who would like to pursue courses of independent, individualized study...
Roosevelt said that a "fundamental defect of character" should disqualify Oppenheimer from this honor which could have been fulfilled by a more deserving man. Roosevelt added, however, that the committee had little hope of keeping Oppenheimer off the lecture platform...
...four open-heart operations in a week, takes two a week in his stride. Last week he and his colleagues (including two other surgeons) in the Bailey Thoracic Clinic performed no fewer than 15 heart operations, one with the heart-lung machine and one to close a septal defect. Within Charles Bailey's lifetime, surgery has changed from a relatively blunt and blind art, executed singlehanded. into a skill supported by a team of experts and a world of machines delicate enough to approach the center of life itself. Yet unlike his predecessor. Stephen Paget. Bailey refuses to believe...
...Blue babies. The Blalock-Taussig operation, with later modifications, is relatively safe but does not correct the underlying defects; it merely seeks to counteract them by adding an abnormal blood shunt. Young enthusiasts believe that an effort should be made to correct the abnormalities (open the pulmonary valve, close the interventricular defect and thus correct the overriding of the aorta). But deaths during and soon after operations of this type, with the heart-lung machine...
America's major defect is accepting too much, d'Entreves maintains. For example, we make a professor feel too important. We consider lecturers stamped with infallibility. "In Oxford," he points out, "a professor is made to feel immediately that he couldn't matter less...