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...popular because it is easy and cheap (only requisites: a bar of soap, a kitchen paring knife, an orangewood stick, a steady hand). Many a serious sculptor carves his small-scale models in soap, and its alabastery translucence makes it useful for window display and advertising photographs. One drawback: its fragility. Procter & Gamble sends the winning pieces on a year's tour of schools, stores and clubs. Before the tour's end, half the pieces are broken. Too fragile even to set out on this year's tour is a prizewinning cow. She lost her head...
...rejuvenation; or they could emphasize the play's melodrama, suspense and horror. Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) chose the latter. With a tight, smooth script they have spun a slick thriller whose box-office ending is but a slight drawback to a suspenseful 106 minutes...
...Remembering this partiality of his. I think I shall send him a big cask of sake. The only drawback is that he must be more careful of his health. He has diabetes and alcohol is taboo. If his wife or secretary gets hold of the cask, the game's cooked...
...drawback of the airplane for private use is that it must have broad, obstacle-free fields for take-offs and landings. To compete with the automobile, air transport needs a machine that takes off straight up, lands straight down, remains under control at any speed or no speed. Beginning with Leonardo da Vinci, air designers have tinkered with vertical-lift machines. They wound up definitely nowhere until famed German Designer Heinrich Focke built a practical helicopter that is said to be working with German troops...
...regular checkups extending over a period of two or three years. Some patients, said Dr. Hyman, need a second five-day treatment after several months. The entire course costs only $82 a patient, as contrasted with an average of $300 for the standard 18 months of arsphenamine injections. Drawback to mass cures of the 600,000 victims of early syphilis in the U. S. is the fact that drip technique can be used only in hospitals, not in doctors' offices...