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...only drawback to the House is its age and appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Presents Good Food, Pool, Location Near to Yard | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

...stated that an impartial board of three doctors would pass on the evidence presented by the physician. The obvious drawback to this arrangement is that there doubtless exist communities where it would be difficult to find three doctors who knew enough medicine, were sufficiently unbiased and were willing to take the time to examine the data carefully so that their decision would be an independent one and not merely reflect the view of the patient's physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life & Death | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...Composing is all right," Anderson states, "but it has one drawback. It's hard to get started, and the composer has to eat in the meantime." This was one reason why, after completing one year of graduate work in music, and getting an A.M., he decided to switch to Scandinavian Languages, intending to become a teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: "Sort of In-Between" | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." The technique is called "rapelling." Dunn wraps the rope around various parts of his body and slides down the wall in ten-feet bounds. Physics concentrators who note how the original potential energy is conserved during the descent will appreciate the one big drawback to rapelling...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...times, Brazil's easygoing, samba-loving people are also her greatest drawback. Work comes hard in a country warmed over most of its area by a tropical sun. It is easy to procrastinate, or carioca-fashion, to spend the day on a white-sand beach. Until some of the hustle of industrial São Paulo can be injected into the rest of Brazil, the country will be the "land of tomorrow." Or, as Rio's Mayor Angelo Mendes de Moraes said recently, "the day after tomorrow-and don't forget the day after tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Visit from a Friend | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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