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Word: minuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the leading Crimson pongers are the two Sherfy brothers, 1L, each of whom have a handicap of minus eight. These two, along with Frank W. Edlin '38 and Max G. Manker '38, comprise the Independents. In team matches the quartet plays eight singles and two doubles encounters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ping Pongers Pound Pellets in Team Matches And Regular Weekly Handicap Tournaments | 11/5/1936 | See Source »

...clock, the alumni and dignitaries will reassemble in the Old Yard. This time the Academic Procession, minus those professors of the University who are to join their alumni classes, will also from in the Yard, in front of Holworthy and Thayer Halls. The march into the Theatre will commence soon after two o'clock, and should be finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Class of Harvard's Fourth Century Will Have 1050 Members---Many Returning for Tercentenary | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

...have brought defeat to Franklin Roosevelt next November. But even with Huey Long dead and leadership of his scattered Share-the-Wealthers fallen to a fustian evangelist; even with Priest Coughlin well past his peak of popularity; even with Dr. Townsend stripped of prestige by a Congressional investigation and minus the shrewd boss who whipped his inchoate following into a potent political organization-yet the birth of the Union Party brought grins to Republican faces, shivers to Democratic spines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: No Man's Land | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...vain until the Al G. Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because of his uncertain temper. He was a 6-ton, 9-ft. high, 25-year-old beast called "Charley Ed," valued at $5,000 minus a tusk which he had lost in a fall from a baggage car. After he ap peared with Wallace Beery in the cinema O'Shaughnessy's Boy he was re-named "Wally." Well-behaved. Wally proved a star attraction at Fleishhacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Must & Murder | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...questions in the current affairs test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract the number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is above the college average. Do not look at these answers until you have finished your answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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