Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minus...
There is indeed nothing novel in the actual finger-printing process for V-12 men who smudge on the dotted line for monthly base pay minus deductions, but in the line of more advanced studies experts in the numerous precinct stations stand ready to demonstrate this and similar scientific police methods...
Australians have begun to acquire the U.S. view of a Chaplin minus mustache and baggy pants, the off-screen Chaplin who is a dapper, grey multimillionaire of 54, widely envied in Hollywood for his unassailable arrogance and for his affairs with a succession of pretty young "proteg...
...theft was only the third from the Metropolitan since it opened its doors in 1872. Last theft was in 1927 when three miniatures were stolen. The pictures were later found stuffed down a drain- minus their gold frames. Thefts of art works from museums are rare, because such goods are virtually unmarketable. Most museum thieves are psychopaths or fanatical art-lovers. Among recent U.S. art robberies, most sensational was the Brooklyn Museum's loss of ten old masters at one blow, in 1933. The Brooklyn thieves hid in the museum until late at night, skillfully lowered the paintings...
...minus 273 degrees," he comments, "even the most violent chemical reactions, are forced to complete inactivity. No reactions, no life processes can take place; even molecular movement ceases. Without molecular movement, no evaporation can take place. Thus all reactions produced by light rays are precluded, and as the life processes have eased, the organism cannot be damaged by chemical or physical means...