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Word: faulted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the mirror left the optical shop in Pasadena, observatory authorities knew that its edge was "high," but they counted on the supports to correct the fault. The bulge turned out to be too big for the supports to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trouble on Palomar | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...beer ads) from his paper, Mister J.N. is a tolerant man. When Henry Wallace came to town during his campaign, Heiskell gave him free time on the Gazette's radio station to make sure that he got a fair hearing. (It was Wallace's own fault that his interview with Executive Editor Harry Ashmore made damning reading in next day's Gazette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Arkansas Teetotaler | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Whether it was Wild Bill's fault or not (he won his share of games before he came to Tech), undergrads demanded that his head roll and that athletes once again be bought, retail or wholesale. A month ago, President Robert E. Doherty told protesting students: "Some of you may have come to the wrong school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broken Record | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...inescapably before their eyes . . . and this by way of an accusation of the polite and expensive and furtive sensualities and lusts of the rich whose sins have bred this abominable slum. The effect resembles and even magnifies the cause, and Harlem is the portrait of those through whose fault such things come into existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: White Man's Culture | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...main fault with the "Turk" was not in the performance or the opera itself. It is hardly more than a chamber opera, and in the cavernous wastelands of the Boston Opera House, the small mass of sound produced was pretty well lost. It was hard enough for most of the paying customers to hear the artists, let alone detect any difference subtler than that between a pianissimo and a fortissimo...

Author: By F. BRUCE Lewis, | Title: The Music Box | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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