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Word: minuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrazos, there are rewards far higher than this substantial income (about $162,000 a year). These rewards approach a peak when a breeder sees the carcass of one of his bulls being dragged around an arena, amid deafening oles, minus tail and ears, the tokens awarded to a matador for an especially glorious fight against an exceptionally fine bull. Says Don Pepe, hoisting his glass of manzanilla: "You feel, perhaps, that you've helped to create something noble, something brave, which knows how to die with greatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Home of the Brave | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Ezzard Charles won the heavyweight "championship" of the world minus New York and England last night by a unanimous 15-round decision over Joe Walcott in Comiskey Park, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Tops Walcott For World Title (sic) | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

...varsity crew, minus stroke Bill Curwen, left for Ithaca last night to try and break the Cornell jinx. In the fourteen years since Tom Bolles took up coaching here, Harvard has never beaten the Big Red on the waters of Lake Cayuga...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crew Races at Cornell | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

Forsyth, Hudner, and Sid Clark in the goal were the outstanding Harvard players. The squad, minus Estin, plays New Hampshire today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much-Too-Good Dartmouth Lacrosse Team Wins, 14-3 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Rounding out the overall picture, the jumping, polevaulting, and hurdling has been improving steadily every meet. The javelin, minus the service of Fred Ravreby, has remained weak...

Author: By Arne L. Schoeller, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

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