Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote on the 27 Miss Radcliffe semi-finalists she worked out a code. After each contestant's name, she place either a minus sign, a plus sign, or a check mark. "I just made them up this minute," she explained with a smile, "so you won't read over my shoulder." Myrna turned to a contestant...
...keeping with the CRIMSON-Summer School precedent. This difference should have remained one between the two involved parties; instead it suddenly exploded into an alleged attack on "freedom of the press." A former CRIMSON editor, working for the Boston Globe, got the story, printed the bare facts minus the background, and soon had it buzzing across the nation's wire services. Immediately, Campbell and William Yandell Elliott, Director of the Summer School, were opening virulent letters from alumni and faculty denouncing them for underhanded censorship. One of them came from Law Professor Zechariah Chafee, Jr., who had read enough only...
...supports at a high percentage of parity, insurance, loans, storage and marketing aids, REA and soil conservation, means one thing to most of the farmers I talked to: a reassuring piece of insurance against disaster. To them, there is no insurance in a "flexible farm program," or a program minus this or that present-day provision. In North Dakota G.O.P. Senator Milton Young said: "A flexible farm-support program will be tragic for the Republican Party." His words would be taken seriously...
...Manhattan, after interviewing returning notables on the Queen Elizabeth, newsmen caught a glimpse and no more of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, back from Europe incognito (his traveling alias: Anthony Stanley) and minus his heiress wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski. Shielding his face with a black coat, he ducked out of his cabin, hurried down the gangplank and off in a waiting limousine...
...Cautious? Reduced to 35 planes and minus two carriers, Ozawa hightailed it out of the Philippine Sea. Yet, since he had saved the bulk of his 55-ship fleet, Spruance and Mitscher felt small joy. Had Spruance been overly cautious? No, says Morison, he had the Saipan beachhead to think of. "Military men never get any credit for guarding against dangers that might occur yet do not; but they are quickly 'hanged' if they fail adequately to guard against dangers that do occur-witness Pearl Harbor." Moreover, Morison argues, the battle was fully as decisive as Ozawa thought...