Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women with brains have practically no chance of finding a husband, according to research done by Cornell. The researchers agreed that men distrust a woman who is intellectually and culturally superior. They also said that many universities are planning courses to develop intellect and feminine charm to curb this fault...
...estate values, but Water Engineer Oswald A. Gierlich of Manhattan Beach refused to keep mum. He knew that the west basin's gravel recharges very slowly, that fresh water comes a long distance from inland mountains and filters through gaps in an impermeable barrier called the Inglewood-Newport Fault (see diagram). The invading sea water moves much faster. Gierlich figured that, if nothing were done, sea water would fill the whole basin in about ten years and permanently spoil the vital wells...
...reasons for this inadequacy are difficult to pinpoint. The trouble is not in the report's conclusions though many of them verge on platitudes, nor with its facts, though they are often trivial. The report's deepest fault is its lack of any clearly developed point of view against which the facts and conclusions can be measured...
...arias in the first and third acts and her fourth-act Canzone del Salce, her singing was as technically perfect as ever; her pianissimos were downy, though her full voice had its familiar fault, a trace of stridency. Her main worry, however, was "getting through the afternoon without a broken neck. That man [Vinay] is crazy in this role." She survived two wristlocks and a hammerlock, and managed to display a fair amount of dramatic ability in doing...
...main fault is that it is a compromise between necessity and the demands of vociferously anti-UMST voters. Originators of the first UMST bill, who drew up their project without pressure from emotional constituents, had the only solution to the current draft muddle: elimination of Selective Service and institution...