Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point Mr. Critchfield's observations halted because he was knocked out. When he revived, the Douglas transport was wedged between two trees, minus its wings and considerably messed up. But only Pilot Merrill was badly hurt, with a broken jaw, a broken ankle. Overconfident, as he readily admitted, he had been led astray by bad weather-reporting and rain static on the radio, had come down through the overcast thinking he was at Newark, had found a hillside instead. By extraordinary luck and skill he managed to make a forced landing...
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...capital of $1,000,000 and assets of $7,000,000, owed its policyholders in the smoldering city more than $11,000,000. Then vice president in charge of the marine division, Jacob Levison proposed the formation of a new company to take over the insurance of the old, minus San Francisco losses. Each director was asked to subscribe to stock in the new corporation in a ratio of twice the amount of the par value of his former holdings. All but one agreed. Mr. Levison made their subscription notes security for a $250,000 loan from the Crocker-Woolworth...
Further, the scheme must be run according to accepted insurance principles, with premiums carefully rated and understood by all parties. Only as a business proposition, minus the profit incentive, can this plan be made workable. All disguised subsidizing must be systematically kept out of the picture if the government is to carry out its proposed plan...
...geometry paper graded 33 by a College Board reader was referred to the committee on hopeless failures which rated it 67. College Board examiners are not alone in their capriciousness. A history paper scored 60 by University of Toronto examiners, minus 10 more points for misspelling, was copied over without the misspellings, scored 70 on the rereading. In a one-year course at Cornell, the same students got widely different marks from the two instructors who taught in successive semesters. In an experiment at the University of Wisconsin the same teachers gave different marks when they regraded their own papers...