Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Billy Graham cover, I think Artist Chaliapin slipped on his Biblical background . . . "And the Lord said unto the Serpent . . . Upon thy belly shall thou go . . ." Your cover shows the serpent minus its legs, tempting...
...students graduating from Harvard, the new deferment law will require a senior year average of between B-plus and A-minus...
...past, a senior year average of between B and B minus has proved sufficient to give deferment, at least for the first graduate year...
Previously, a graduating student needed to be in the upper half of his class, or have scored 75 out of 100 on his deferment test to gain draft exemption in graduate school. But under the new ruling most graduate school bound students will have to have between an A-minus and B-plus average for the senior year, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, explained yesterday. In the past, a senior year average of between B and B-minus guaranteed draft deferment...
Wandering through the chill autumn woods outside Stockholm, a casual American tourist might have stumbled across the 20 goose-pimpled Swedes and Finns and mistaken them for a bunch of overage Boy Scouts minus their marbles. Shivering in skimpy costumes-cotton shorts and shirts and gym shoes-they looked like summer hikers, some two months late, waiting for a tardy scoutmaster to take them home...