Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michael Shayne, Private Detective" is a grade B show which deserves an A minus. The plot, as is customary in Hollywood murder mysteries, tells how a private detective outsmarts the public defectives. But Lloyd Nolan raises the show way above average by an excellent performance as the sport-coated Sherlock Holmes...
...correct answers to the 105 questions in Current Affairs Test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is above college average. Do not look at answers until you have finished your answer sheet...
...Minus the aid of its guardian angel, Mrs. Roosevelt, the American Youth Congress ran into a series of difficulties at its second annual meeting this weekend. With no comfortable White House accommodations for its leaders and with no half rates at Washington's hotels, as they had last year, the 6000 delegates were at a pecuniary disadvantage from the start. The bill which they spent the greater share of their meeting protesting was being rushed through the House of Representatives while they held their meetings. The final outrage came when their peaceful delegation to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs...
...letters of introduction was missing. A search began and an appeal was made for its return. As "Wild Bill's" hour of de parture arrived, the Orient Express was kept waiting 20 minutes while the Royal Palace was ransacked. Finally, he departed for Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, Turkey minus wallet and passport. He still had his watch...
...Minus Fours...