Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major flaw in the scheme of Bank Night from the point of view of Affiliated Enterprises, Inc. is that the copyright is easy to infringe. Proprietors of drugstores, dance-halls, delicatessens are likely to be incredulous and indignant when warned that they are trespassing. A variation of Bank Night is currently popular at Manhattan's Stork Club, where patrons get free chances for substantial cash prizes. Imitations of Bank Night called "Dividend Night," "Buck Night," "Cash Night," "Screeno," are flourishing in cinema houses all over the U. S. Handing down his opinion in Des Moines. where Bank Night...
There can be no argument with the proposition that Harvard must have some body of raying watchmen to protect University property and it is natural that it be placed in the same department with the janitors and goodies. The flaw in the system is that these watchmen have followed police practice and turned in suspects to their immediate superior; in this case, Mr. Apted. And there has been no consideration given to the obvious fact that an efficient head caretaker will not necessarily be a suitable person to handle student disciplinary problems...
...from writing papers and theses would be greatly increased by having a period in which there would be "the possibility of continuous application to an academic task." Unlike other reading periods this one is not the signal to undergraduates to extend their vacations. For Juniors a safeguard against this flaw, as it exists in other systems, is placed in the requirement that they produce departmental papers at the end of the period. As for Seniors we feel that the Council is correct in assuming "with confidence that the time granted . . . . would be wisely spent, first in application to the thesis...
...dramatic effect of Paths of Glory seems somehow to miss the full impact of What Price Glory? or Journey's End, it is probably due to a slight flaw in the matter of illusion. It is a little distracting to hear men dressed as French soldiers yearn for Paris and their native villages in honest New Yorkese. As the two most prominent of the condemned men, however, a pair of extremely credible performances are turned in by young Actor Myron McCormick, late of the Princeton Triangle Show, and oldtime Actor William Harrigan, commander of the 3rd Battalion...
...spun by the wind; Lashing him, face and eyes, with my displeasure. " VI I opened him all the guile of the seas - Their sullen, swift-sprung treacheries. To be fought, or forestalled, or dared, or dismissed with laughter. I showed him worth by folly concealed, And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed- (Lessons remembered-to bear fruit thereafter.) VII "I dealt him power beneath his hand, For trial and proof, with his first command- Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him. On him the end, the means, and the word. And the harsher judgment...