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Word: minuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the N.C.A.A. team battle was between Defending Champion Yale and Ohio State, which lost the title to Yale a year ago. Thanks to 41 points from its freshman swimmers, Peppe's Ohio Staters ("the best team I've had in 22 years of coaching") beat Yale, minus its freshmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Splashy Preview | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Author Baxter writes with authority and unblinking candor. His book is not for the squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Under Pressure | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...played the entire game of offense with about half of the East plays being run from a single wing. This was quite nature because the Tiger star was expected by all to carry the underdog East offensive. Kazmaier's swift shifty-hipped, deceptive running amassed a total of minus nine yards...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: BETWEEN THE LINES | 1/8/1952 | See Source »

...Deacons will be minus John Tangen, their chief offensive threat, but the addition of Neil Bortz from the J.V. squad is expected to strengthen them. Halfback Ralph Maffai appears to be near top shape for the first time in several weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Intramural Teams to Engage Yale Colleges Today | 11/23/1951 | See Source »

...Deacons will be minus John Tangen, their chief offensive threat, but the addition of Neil Bortz from the J.V. squad is expected to strengthen them. Halfback Ralph Maffai appears to be near top shape for the first time in several weeks...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Professors Hit Red Bill, Attack Dever's Signing | 11/23/1951 | See Source »

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