Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second picture. "Easy to Love", is a moderately smutty bedroom farce with an abundance of dirty lines; the humor of the piece is unfortunately almost entirely dependent on pornography. Despite this drawback the picture is successful because of the efforts of a capable cast the best of which are Miss Tobin and Edward Everett Horton...
This will be the B.U. hockey team's first game since its last encounter with the Crimson; and it is expected that a lack of reserves will be its greatest drawback in this game, as it was in the last...
...have become seriously infected. Instead, some way must be found by which the occasional susceptible person can be made to resist the virus. Immune serum has already been used for early treatment; but the difficulty of experimenting on children, and of finding comparable untreated cases, has been a serious drawback in this investigation. It is known, however, that because of the mildness of early symptoms in some children, the disease would not be recognized in its true form until too late to use the serum treatment...
...Paris, came over on the Berengaria, played in Chicago the night after his boat docked in New York. Last week Guest's team retained its Class A championship by beating the Sixth Corps Area 16 to 8 with a two-goal man. Harvey Shaffer, at back. Only drawback in last week's tournament was the fact that the Aknusti team which won the Eastern title did not go out West to make the final three-cornered. Chicago polo enthusiasts hoped that the presence of the crack Army team at Fort Sheridan might cause the sulky cliques of socialites...
Back to Purnea, the Moth brought consistently discouraging news to the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition. Flying conditions were bad. One day low hanging clouds obscured most of the surrounding terrain, an important drawback because the expedition's scientific aim was to map aerially 250 sq. mi. surrounding the peak. Another day a great white snow plume whirled menacingly about Everest's cone. The flyers were waiting for a wind velocity not to exceed 40 m.p.h. They fell impatiently to tinkering with their ships and equipment, already at taut perfection. They had been at Purnea nine days, but precious...