Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With applications flooding in daily, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been forced to raise entrance requirements from a B average to a B-plus A-minus one. A 50% increase in the highest previous enrollment of the school has been forecast for the fall term, with three-quarters of the expected students veterans...
...that they'd have to help me. But my greatest hold on the circus is Dramatic Reading. Apparently they have always been read to in a monotone, for they find my delivery most enchanting. So the offer is: a half-hour's story-reading a day, minus time wasted in waiting for them to come to order during the day. The minute I stand still and start staring at the clock, the refractory few become unpopular. I get lots of help in quieting down the room that...
Last fortnight Dr. Donald H. Andrews of Johns Hopkins University described a bolometer to top them all. Its sensitive surface is columbium nitride cooled by liquid hydrogen to minus 432° F. At this temperature-close to absolute zero-columbium nitride becomes "superconductive"; its electrical resistance almost vanishes. When a heat ray hits it and warms it only one millionth of a degree, it gives a clear electrical signal...
...jampacked with soldiers. Britain's former Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...
Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...