Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minus the services of their star kicker, Hank Vander Eb, who has gone to Pennsylvania to strengthen the Varsity's point-after-touchdown department, the Jayvees realized their potentialities today, with the result that victory was never in doubt...
...because for perhaps the first time their interest was turning to guns which could be turned against Quisling and his protectors. Nazi police who hung their bayonet and pistol belts with their overcoats in cafés lost them, and Nazi soldiers mysteriously murdered at night were always found minus rifle, side arms and ammunition. Stockholm's Dagens Nyketer reported from Oslo that Nazi arms were disappearing so rapidly that it was necessary to place special guards around supply dumps and ships...
This should be neither bar nor safeguard to most young men: conscripts can be blind in one eye, partially deaf in both ears, minus one big toe or two little ones, and still be technically eligible...
Last week Adolf Hitler's mind went back 300 years minus eight, to the Treaty of Westphalia signed in the old Hanseatic town of Münster. By that treaty the Holy Roman Empire, devastated by the Thirty Years War, was broken into tiny pieces and the authority of the Emperor ended forever. The history of Germany since then has been the repeated efforts, under Prussia, to pick up the pieces of that Empire. Last week Adolf Hitler let it be known that the peace treaty ending World War II would be signed in Münster...
...mile and five-sixteenths); on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. Marietta finished second, Springfield third. ∧Long-swatting little Ben Hogan of Fort Worth, Tex.: the third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island's Fresh Meadow links. To Winner Hogan went $1,000, upping his 1940 tournament earnings to $7,538 only $239 behind Fellow Texan Jimmy Demaret, this year...