Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minus "passenger comforts" (food cupboards, pillows, oxygen, stewardesses), two 21-passenger DC-35 were turned over to the freight run, still equipped with seats for quick reconversion if necessary. But ground crews managed to pack in 4,000 to 6,000 Ib. of high-priority cargo (including mail) for each flight...
...base of John Harvard's statue have resulted in the formulation of irrepressible strategy. The invaders will arrive by sleeper on the New Haven Railroad, augmented by a sea force which will land in Boston Harbor in a flotilla of 8-oar shells and make rendezvous at H-hour minus 10 in the Park Street subway station. (Any local Elis and Harvard Quislings wishing to contribute fare may send their dimes to D-41 McKinlock...
...calculations based on the body's known mass* and probable compositions (mainly hydrogen and helium), Russell concludes that 1) its diameter is perhaps 216,000 miles, or 40% that of its star-"big for a planet, but passable"; 2) its surface temperature is probably somewhere between 50 and minus 168 degrees Centigrade (122 to minus 272 degrees Fahrenheit...
...Childs brothers were employes of Dennett . . . they learned all the tricks and started their own chain, minus the prayers and texts...
...clock to get in a few sets of tennis. On the courts of Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, he plays (lefthanded) a hard-plugging but ungraceful game with his sister or brother-in-law, Swiss Minister Charles Brugmann, occasionally matches strokes with other grade B-minus players like Nelson Rockefeller, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal or Justice Hugo Black...