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Word: minuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a cupboard full up. Only one person in a thousand could remember how much coffee he had three months earlier or think of any reason at all why OPA now should hand out a maddening questionnaire with a naive entry: "Pounds of coffee owned on November 28, 1942, minus 1 pound for each person included in this Declaration whose age as stated on War Ration Book One is 14 years or older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit the Can Opener | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...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 Emmett Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trottman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...meet at Exeter Saturday the swimmers defeated the New Hampshirites 37 to 29. Minus many of their stars, the mermen weren't able to match their previous 47 to 19 victory over the Red and Grey. In another Saturday meet at Exeter, the wrestlers went down to a 23 to 8 defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. V. SQUADS TAKE 4 WEEKEND BATTLES | 2/23/1943 | See Source »

Coach Jay Schaffran's Varsity wrestlers, minus the services of captain Lee Sosman, will play host to a strong Columbia aggregation tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATMEN TACKLE LIONS; FENCERS OPPOSE BROWN | 2/12/1943 | See Source »

Although some of the personnel around the University has changed, the historic strongholds are still here. Minus some cast iron railing, the Yard is still what it has been for three-hundred-odd years. Widener Library functions effectively, almost unaffected by the war. Business still goes on around the Square, boasting its Harvard-inhabited restaurants and barbershops, the Coop, the U.T., and other institutions that have made the Square a part of Harvard life...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: NEW FRESHMEN WILL SEE WAR-GEARED HARVARD | 1/22/1943 | See Source »

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