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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Should patch a wall t'expel the winter's flaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Plays by G.B.S. | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Mill. Like every other procedure designed for this purpose, the Kahn test had a flaw: it occasionally gave "false positive" reactions, indicating syphilis where there was none. Many researchers were content to dismiss these few false positives as run-of-the-mill defects. But not Kahn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Signals In the Blood | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

William A. Heaman, manager of the Dining Halls, admitted yesterday that the size of the separating partitions on the new trays had caused many complaints. Students have praised the efficient designing of the new product but have added that this one tragic flaw prevents the trays from being a complete success...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Students Criticize Shallow Partitions in Circular Trays | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

According to Green, he and his partners had done nothing outside the law. He was shocked when North Carolina's mild-mannered Congressman Herbert Bonner pointed out a flaw in Green's operations: he had failed to pay a 5% excise tax in his multimillion-dollar operation. The Philippine deal "stinks," said Bonner. It may not be illegal, he added, but it is "morally terrible ... We are in this one to stay for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Smart Operator | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...present studied almost entirely from the non-religious point of view. The anthropological, the psychological, and the philosophical points of view are all represented, but not the specifically religious. It is arguable, therefore, that the absence of a course taught from this point of view is a flaw in the curriculum, and that there should be such a course at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religion and the Free Student | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

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