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...when submerged. Model 21 rarely had to surface because it used the "Schnorkel," an extendable air pipe which enables a submarine to recharge the batteries by diesel while submerged (TIME, Feb. 19). In one 45-day patrol, Model 21 U-boat spent all but four days under water. Only drawback: cooped-up living conditions. Some 116 of the formidable Model 21s were built, but minor defects kept them from going to sea on real war patrols...
...guess for the best view from any TIME office anywhere you'd have to go to Rio de Janeiro: in their window-gazing moments our correspondentsthere can look across Rio Harbor to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Drawback: to get into the office at night, you'd have to go through a neighboring apartment building, rise in a rickety service elevator, grope your way down some very dark corridors...
...Superman's" schoolmarmy sentences have taught grammar to thousands of schoolchildren. Only drawback: students do a week's work in one evening...
...Leaf-killing dust. A prime drawback in mechanical picking is that leaves get collected along with the cotton. To get cleaner cotton, the Hopson plantation, before harvesting, defoliated the plants with cyanamid dust dropped from a plane...
...later, as the nose begins to run. No matter how thirsty the patient gets, he should drink very little water. This is the absolute contradiction of a favorite cold recipe. Dr. Adler says no harm is done by his salt-the body already contains 30 times that much. Only drawback: for some people, brine is an emetic...