Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ingalls and co-workers have shown that many deformities previously thought to be inherited are brought on in large part by unfavorable environment before birth--by, injury, illness or some other defect in the pregnant mother...
...White mice," he explained, "had severe deformities of the brain, skull and skeleton when the mother had too little oxygen on the eighth day of pregnancy. Cleft palate was a common result of exposure on the 14th day, and a curious defect of the eye and eyelids--so-called 'open eye'--when the pregnancy had advanced to about sixteen days...
...Ingalls emphasized that the stage of pregnancy and the lack of oxygen were not the only factors in determining the nature and extent of the defect...
...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...
...sense, President Truman's offer had the defect of all proposals for disarmament or arms limitation: it attacked the symptom rather than the disease. Yet in an atomic age, any fundamental plan for international security is bound to include arms limitation and international inspection...