Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Audiences in Columbus were not particularly warm toward the play. Adapted from Julia Peterkin's Pulitzer prizewinning novel, its first drawback was that the dialog was in Gullah.* And Actress Barrymore's facial expressions, under cork, were hard to see, especially since the sets were made too dark. But Actress Barrymore was not downhearted. She had the kind of a part which is every actor's dream: when she was not holding the stage all the other actors were talking about...
...long, outwardly resembles an ordinary Ford automobile muffler. Inside is a series of small "pinwheels" which retard the speed of the exhaust gases-"chewing up" the sound waves without creating excessive back pressure upon the engine. (The latter factor, involving loss of power, has been the principal drawback to most attempts at muffling.) The pilot who tested the Jones muffler in flight said the engine lost none of its normal speed-1,900 r.p.m...
...German competition, more than a million more men are employed in British factories than were in 1921) but because British workmen who used to emigrate by the hundreds of thousands annually are either unable (foreign quota laws) or unwilling to leave the United Kingdom. Chief drawback to the scheme is that it once more passes responsibility for unemployment from Great Britain to the Dominions, who are not at all anxious to increase their own unemployment problems with an influx of workless Britons...
...will use the pouch for valuable express shipments. One drawback to adoption of the bag by the Post Office is its weight?20 Ib. as compared to the present 6-lb. type...
...more war threatened on the Afghanistan border just south of Eastern Russia. There thus seemed a good chance that the Martin planes for Russia would soon see service. A joint board of the U. S. War and Navy Departments had not found these considerations a drawback to the Martin-Russia deal. The White House denied having any hand in the matter or expressing any opinion thereon. But Mr. Stimson was impressed by the situation in the Orient and his alone was the decision to "view with disfavor" the Martin-Russia deal. New and puzzling, however, was the reason he gave...