Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Ways & Means Committee a subcommittee handed, without recommendation, the Coal Stabilization Bill minus the doubtfully constitutional provision for Government purchase of $300,000,000 worth of submarginal coal mines...
Thus the first equation simply means that the approach of Nation (1) toward war with (2) is equal to the product of the defense-coefficients of both nations multiplied by the preparedness of (2), minus the preparedness of (1), multiplied by its fatigue-and-expense coefficient, plus the dissatisfactions-with-treaties of (1). The second equation can be translated conversely...
...gleaming red seal which is the symbol proclaiming his superiority to other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...
London 26 Rome 18 Leningrad 11 (Minus one sold to Paris 19 A. W. Mellon) Berlin 11 New York 8 Philadelphia...
...Minus the services of Don Meiklejohn, benched with a leg injury, the Crimson will nevertheless put a strong team on the field. Good performances are expected from King Howard, Butch Fisher, Bob Brooks, and Hayden Channing...