Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central power station which are checked by wireless from the U. S. naval Observatory at Arlington, Virginia and control the alternations of the current through connections to the turbine governors. The accuracy of the large 60-cycle electric networks is thus maintained within 5 seconds plus or minus. Even the smaller clocks are never more than 20 seconds off, and this accuracy is continually improving as interconnections between systems are added...
Blanking Brown 9-0, for its second shut-out victory in a row, the Varsity tennis team ran its string of consecutive triumphs up to five straight at Providence yesterday. Although the Crimson Players were minus the services of Sandy Davenport '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, filling in at number one in his place, handled the situation admirably by defeating the Bruin's star, Chase, in a long match...
...Week before another onetime Des Moines citizen, Secretary Wallace, had called him to head the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey. Manhattan publishers who have made him. many a fancy offer to go East raised their eyebrows at "Ding's" new salary- $8,000 per year, minus a 15% economy cut. They knew that meant a genuine sacrifice for one of the best-paid cartoonists in the land. "Ding" was willing to make it because his new Federal job will give him a prime chance to serve a cause to which he is passionately devoted -wild-life...
...businessmen to lunch. After lunch, Mr. Stout presented each of his guests with a booklet containing 100 exceedingly personal questions which were designed to foster sharp self-appraisal, shame the questionee to better behavior. Each answer carried with it a grade, and the final total of plus and minus ratings located the individual in society. Some questions...
...average seems to be somewhere around 70," said Questioner Stout. ''I personally must confess that I got a terrible minus score, but since applying myself diligently I have succeeded in showing an improvement of 4.06% over the first time...