Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawback of picture size might well have a happy ending, thought the FCC. It is caused by the one "mechanical" feature of the CBS apparatus-the spinning, motor-driven color wheel which must be more than twice the size of the TV screen. The FCC saw a way out through the adoption of a tri-color picture tube which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration...
This modern descendant of the horse-drawn French 75 is a cross between a gun and a rocket launcher. It is handled in the field by a small crew, can knock out a tank if it hits the treads or the relatively thin side armor. One drawback: the blast which spurts from the openings in the rear of the recoilless rifle reveals the weapon's position...
...have increased, thanks partly to the employees' interest in making the company more successful, the payoffs to retiring employees have jumped sharply. Sample payoff last year: a $4,600-a-year clerk who had contributed $3,561 to the fund in 34 years got $95,626. The technical drawback to the plan is that most of the employees' pension eggs are in one basket. But under the circumstances, Sears and its employees are not worried: they do not know where they could find a more productive basket...
Besides the notoriously cut-throat competition for grades, Chemistry's greatest drawback is its huge lab schedule. An average of three afternoons a week for three years must be spent doing largely uninteresting labwork. Dividends, however, are paid on this effort. The Chem concentrator upon graduation can not only go on to further study, but can also command a good starting salary as a research specialist...
...which he says heaven and earth in one word. It is the language in which he speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not . . . give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time...