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...were right, UNESCO might become a battering ram, capable of knocking down national barriers to international understanding. If the cynics were right, UNESCO would be just another grandiose 20th Century balloon, with a big cheer at the ascension but in the end just a bag of wind. One basic drawback: Soviet Russia so far has not joined...
Lifesaver. In San Antonio he worked by day and studied English at night school. He picked cotton, herded sheep, stuck pigs. The pig smell was a drawback at Saturday night dances, so Indio went to work in a foundry...
With a game behind them, the Crimson should show up somewhat better than against Boston University when they dropped a 12 to 6 game. However, the squad must be classed as inexperienced--a drawback that cannot be overcome in the short space of a week...
...went on stocking lakes and streams with its usual 7,000,000,000 fish and fish eggs a year. State hatcheries fed them on horse meat and liver (rainbow trout got an extra pinch of paprika for coloring). After four years, a fine fish crop was ready & waiting. Only drawback: a shortage of fishing tackle...
First they bred a buffalo bull with a domestic cow, found that the calf's disproportionately big head and shoulders Killed three out of four cows at birth. Then they crossed domestic bulls with buffalo cows, and normal births ensued. But there was one drawback: the first hybrids were sterile. Nevertheless the breeders persisted...