Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news, or how, but he could never forget what that news was. Four B's! He rolled the words over and over on his tongue, four B's, four B's, four B's. The fact that each of those B's had a little dash connoting minus after it did not lessen the ecstasy he felt in his mouth as those delicious sounds rolled off his tongue; four B's, four B's. That night, with his head resting on his desk blotter, Vag dreamed that he had joined the immortals...
...probable starting team of Bixler, Di Led, Keene, Richards, and Hennessey will face a Milton aggregation minus its captain and star, Hump Moulton, who is ill with the chicken...
...Minus their leader but confident of their ability to maintain a stand against the Colossus of the North, the Argentinian delegates to the Inter-American conference landed at Rio de Janeiro late Monday afternoon to find an immense crowd lining the seawall which overlooks the airbase. Thousands of expectant Brazilians were waiting for something, but it was not for the Argentine delegation. Five minutes later, however, while the Buenos Aires representatives were still on the scene, a huge, forty-ton Yankee clipper zoomed out of the skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with...
...business: no more pencil erasers, typewriter erasers, rubber bands (the U.S. uses some 30,000,000,000 bands a year). Stockings and underpants will draggle down minus garters, stocking tops, elastic waist bands. Feet will get wet: fewer galoshes, boots, rubbers. Relaxation will be harder: no more foamed rubber latex auto cushions, Pullman cushions, home and hospital mattresses. Hair will be stringier on next year's beaches: no more bathing caps (last year: 11,500,000); and no more rubber bathing suits...
...Pearl Harbor got past this week's raids with little damage done to shops, drydocks and fuel storage, the Fleet can still function in force, minus only the striking power of ships and aircraft lost to bombs and torpedoes. But if Pearl Harbor is grievously damaged, the Fleet, or large units of it, may be forced to pull back to the Pacific Coast...