Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teen-age draft bill, minus its original semester deferment for college students, passed the Senate yesterday and was sent to President Roosevelt. The absence of that one clause from the long-politicked bill attracted college students' attention, seeming to affect closely the future of the colleges themselves...
...famous lawyer Ronald Coleman hadn't worn a mustache and a van dyke, he would have lost his legal look, and "The Talk of the Town" would have been minus it's one really novel feature. But not even a clean-shaven Coleman could have slowed down the pace of this fast-stepping comedy. Technical errors and a few kernels of corn keep it from the top, but it still ranks high among the year's better pictures...
...continue to do nothing about opening Boylston Reading Room. This attitude is not new, University officials have long been famous for their charming smiles. But any advisor will tell his Freshman that November hour time is not the season for humdrum. And this year's crop of Freshmen are minus both Boylston Reading Room and the Union Library...
...three (in 1885) was a winning curlyhead whose passion was soap bubbles. His grandfather, the great Pre-Raphaelite Painter John Everett Millais, one day bribed little Willie to pose for him in exchange for hearing a fairy tale. An excellent likeness, the painting was finished in several weeks -minus soap bubbles. Those were painted from less evanescent crystal spheres...
...BATS FLY AT DUSK - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). Private Detective Bertha Cool, minus her diminutive partner, Donald Lam, though absent from scene, supplies the right answers to both murders, a spot of forgery, and other villainy. An exceptionally clever plot, much lusty humor - and Bertha Cool, saltiest of female sleuths...