Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole affair was utterly fantastic. A little pipsqueak railroad had soundly beaten the giant Brotherhoods, slashed their demands by 75%. Not in decades had a big road extracted more than a handful of fluff from the Brotherhood featherbed. There was only one big hitch: G. P. McN. was still minus his railroad...
...Midway the Jap Fleet poked into the range of land-based aircraft, and for the first time in history, on such a scale, naval power with imposing air support met naked air power. It was the carriers again that took the beating. When the Jap turned back, minus two, and perhaps four, of his floating airdromes, airmen could ask some pertinent questions: What price carriers when aircraft get up (as they will next year) to ranges of 10,000 miles, with bomb loads of 25 tons? What price carriers to a group of nations which controls the islands...
...commonwealth of Great Britain and Holland, a Fennoscandic Union (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Esthonia), Czecho-Polska ("already being planned by the Czech and Polish Governments-in-exile" and including Lithuania), a Balkan Union ("Some trouble may be expected from the Bulgars"), Italy (plus Dalmatia, Tunisia, Corsica, Nice), France (minus Alsace-Lorraine, plus the Spanish Basque provinces and parts of Switzerland), an Iberian Union (Spain and Portugal), Russia (with Latvia, and a corridor to the Dardanelles), a German-Magyar State (Germany, Austria, Alsace, part of Switzerland, Hungary...
...Anthy 1 happened to be a snap at their respective alma maters. And then there are the four prominent industrialists who, as worldly Harvard under-grads, enrolled in a notorious Cultural History of the Moslem Empire in Spain with sincere intentions of passing with the gentlemanly grade of C minus. But the enthusiasm which the professor held for this fascinating field inspired them to such feats of scholarship that they not only got A's but agree today that the delightful classes were the most enjoyable part of the four years...
...plus outweighs the minus in A Witness Tree, and Frost remains in this book a first-rate poet and a natural American. How timely a thing this is, readers of Frost's unexampled historical poem, The Gift Outright, will quickly discern...