Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen rents a locker at $7-$20 a year, buys meat, vegetables and fruit at wholesale prices, stores it away, eats it months or even years later. For safe preservation, most locker plants use the "sharp-freeze" method, whereby food is flash-frozen at minus 20-30° F., wrapped in special paper, stored away in the lockers at zero. Modern food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler...
...place is a stretch of desert before El Alamein. Two armies face each other which for two months have been recreating themselves in manpower and in material. The last preparations for combat intensify, and grow quiet. In blank black, a calm voice speaks: At Zero-minus-thirty the barrage begins. At the same moment the sappers will move for ward. . . . At 10 o'clock the infantry will advance. In quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These are not actors. The faces are childlike rather than...
Following a surprisingly capable performance of Purcell's "Andante in F Sharp Minor" and a more than welcome ten minute respite, the Brahms Requiem, minus one chorus, was heard. The music was written from 1867 to '72 in memory of his mother's death. Brahms disliked religious dogmatism the religious mysticism so common to Bach. The Requiem is expressive in a manner peculiar to Brahms, and all its beauty and emotional intensity was seen in a few scattered passages of the performance, such as the solos by Miss Marjorie Rice and Paul Tibbetts. But in general the effect was tiring...
Because it sent only two grapplers to Saturday's Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling tournament at the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra, and was therefore penalized thirty points, five for each entrant less than a full team, the Crimson team finished last with a total of minus 26 points...
...keeping with the dimensions of the place, the session is expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's Band minus Teddy but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, Trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett, drums, and Emmettt Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trooman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...