Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provision for applying selective controls was too well written. For one thing, he did not like the way wage controls were tied to price controls. "As a result we may have to resort to general controls before they are really necessary. This may prove to be a serious defect...
Forty-six-year-old Dr. Skinner has nothing particular against rats, except that they have the grave defect of living for only two or three years. A researcher can educate a promising rat, guide him through his school days; then, just when the rat is ready for his degree, he dies of old age. Pigeons, which often live 15 years, might be better, Dr. Skinner reasoned. Their reaction time is like that of humans; they have good color vision, and are not as stupid as their posturing and cooings have led people to believe...
...wearing of the beanie points up an essential defect in the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. They must conform to Harvard standards in matters intellectual, but they are completely beyond our control in other matters. The day is not far off when we shall be beset by the other corrolaries of coeducation. Pinning, "drug store society," and mooney couples in strange dress will...
...second major defect occurs in the transfer of patients from the department of mental health to the penal department for defective delinquents, under the Bureau of Correction. As the system now stands, a person may be transferred from the first institution to the second for simple violation of rules...
...know their identity, a citizen of the United States has been ..." A found disloyal Government to the worker's career and Government reputation, he added, are now "at the mercy not only of an innocently mistaken informer but also of a malicious or demented one unless his defect is apparent to the [FBI] agent who interviews him . . . We cannot preserve our liberties by sacrificing them...