Word: defections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this appeared to be saying, in effect: "We guarantee a tire for so long as nothing happens to it." But closer study revealed this meaning: "We guarantee that so long as a tire has enough rubber and cotton to hold it together, it will not fail because of any defect in material or workmanship...
...retained its airy, foolish charm. The girls of the chorus, it must be confessed, were pretty though perhaps not artful dodgers; and if the principals were at times too violent, their merry unconsciousness of this fact, fitting the good-humored mood of the piece, did much to allay the defect...
...long desired, so slow to come. Not that Mussolini's sword-shaking is a symptom of insufficient linguistic knowledge; still, be never had the opportunity afforded by model assemblies of the League of Nations. All in all, there are possibilities in this sort of meeting. There is one great defect, however; the model assemblies can offer no model Alps to amuse bored delegates...
...chief trouble, as I see it, is the lack of contact, or rather of the right contact, between student and teacher. I know that the introduction of the tutors has been designed to overcome this defect, but I feel that their wings are clipped before they start by the very nature of their task. Their purpose is to help their men prepare for the general examinations in English-- examinations based on the assumption that knowledge of English literature is to be attained only through a survey of each period in its historical development, and through a study of all representative...
...promise of success in this profession, did Thomas Hardy write his first novel, The Poor Man and The Lady. This fell into the hands of an intelligent publisher's reader, the later famed George Meredith, who returned it promptly because it lacked plot. Desperate Remedies desperately remedied this defect, but supplanted it with many others. Under the Greenwood Tree attracted more favorable notice, and in 1874 the Cornhill Magazine published anonymously Far from the Madding Crowd. Its enormous success was in part due to the fact that many painfully unobservant readers attributed it to famed George Eliot, whose works...