Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt: if necessary the entire $790,000,000 Relief appropriation* would be spent for Flood Relief. No Representative wanted to vote against Flood Relief and, on the flood crests of the Ohio and the Mississippi, Franklin Roosevelt's Relief program rode to an easy victory. Only flaw in his success in cutting Relief costs was the rapidly growing realization that the cost of Flood Relief would knock all Mr. Hopkins' calculations into a watersoaked cocked...
...surprised when he offered a Mozart concerto next. They were more surprised when a young U. S. pianist, performing on four days' notice, sat down and played the Mozart with skill and understanding, went on to play the hard piano part of Stravinsky's Capriccio without a flaw...
...beauty of the photography. Chief cameraman was Hans Schneeberger, who shot the remarkable White Hell of Pitz Palu (TIME Oct. 13 1930). To catch the skiing antics of the chief characters of Slalom, he rode along beside them with his camera mounted on his skis, thus avoiding that flaw of most skiing cinemas in which the skier flashes past and is gone. Not only did Cameraman Schneeberger get some of the world's best pictures of skiing, but he managed to frame them in the rugged beauty of the high Alps. Many an Alpine skier will recognize the peaks...
...introduction to concentration in Chemistry, the course proves to be disheartening and even disastrous to many men. For brilliant students it is excellent, but for the rank and file it is too comprehensive. The lectures by Professor Lamb are the only redeeming feature, but even these are not without flaw. Reading is not coorelated with them, and test questions are often based on material not given in either lectures or reading...
...among their constituents do not like it. In order to get more money out of Congress and to launch a new plan for lending $50,000,000 a year to help tenant farmers buy their homes, Dr. Tugwell hoped to get RA transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Only flaw in the plan was that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace did not want to take the responsibility of turning Dreamer Tugwell loose with so much money...