Word: defections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief defect of the examination system is its tendency to make a student's efforts rise to dominant peaks just before examinations. It might be said that an examination makes the student think about a course as a whole, but stimulates him to such thinking only once or twice a year...
...examined her more closely. They decided that she really is a "painless" baby suffering from "indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect in the central nervous system. No cure is known. Last week Beverly's mother, Mrs. Victor Smith, wife of a Firestone employee, took the baby home with a lot of advice from the doctors. She must watch Beverly constantly: the baby might break a bone and continue using...
Like so many other distinguished men, Edison attributed his success to a physical defect. At the age of twelve, he was "lifted by the ears" into a train, and began to get deaf. Growing deafness soon drove him away from conversation and into the libraries which made a deeply read man of him. While normal hearers tussled with life's "general uproar," Edison came to love the state of "insulation" which enabled him to "think out my problems" in peace. And freedom from "meaningless sounds" steadily directed his ears to certain minutiae of sound that he could hear very...
...that isn't how TIME asked to be judged. It said that the public was badly informed, and that TIME could correct that defect. In a way, the public is better informed than it was 25 years ago, and TIME has had a hand in that improvement. But in a deeper sense, the public is not better informed than a generation ago. The techniques of communication are progressing at a rate slower than the growth of what "the intelligent man" needs to know...
Thirty-year-old Don Fegenbush is one of the oldest "blue babies" known to medicine. Blue babies rarely live beyond twelve unless an operation corrects a congenital defect: a too-small opening in the pulmonary artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. One day last week Don decided to risk the operation devised by Johns Hopkins' Surgeon Alfred Blalock (TIME...