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Word: minuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Cargo | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By S/sgt. GEORGE Avakian, | Title: SPECIALISTS' CORNER | 8/27/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dark Companions | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Childs brothers were employes of Dennett . . . they learned all the tricks and started their own chain, minus the prayers and texts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Follow the Leader | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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