Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star of the walkaway victory was Backyard Stupor, who reeled off gains of 45 and 65 yards to tally twice for the Plympton marauders. Behind good blocking and spirited team play, run after run crossed the platter before the Dutch Tile merchants could organize their defense. Only Minus Goodenough failed to score for the journalists in the free-for-all hitting contest...
...Plus & Minus. In Danville, Va., when the local radio, on a tip from a nameless schoolboy, broadcast the news that classes were called off, School Superintendent G. L. Johnson countered with a more reliable radio bulletin: Easter holidays would be shortened...
...beer drinker would have thought nothing of this had not the rye-and-soda man pencilled an "A" at one end of the curve and an "E" at the other. At the high point he put "C" and elsewhere symbols ranging from A minus to D minus...
...human being can live-after a fashion -minus his stomach, his pancreas and half his liver. How much can he lose and still survive? A noted cancer surgeon last week offered some startling new data on that old question...
...exams and on paper grades. Certainly such a concern may be deemed paradoxical when viewed in the light of the College's continued insistence on hour examinations for all undergraduates. The deteriorative influence of such exams on the undergraduate psychology is further compounded by the fact that students, minus the leeway of a reading period in which to review, find themselves, by and large, getting lower marks on hour exams than on finals, thus lowering their course grades...