Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film was previewed last spring, minus Commencement scenes, at the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting in Chicago. London saw it this summer, and Paris may get its chance during the winter...
...team was still minus the services of Dick Clasby, top tailback injured in the Columbia game, and Art French, a defensive halfback who injured his ankle Saturday joined him on the sidelines...
...Walter G. Baumhogger and his associates "haven't the faintest idea how to run the business profitably." The management defended itself by relating how it had tenderly nursed the company from threatened bankruptcy 13 years ago, when its stock was "under water" (i.e., had a book value of minus $1,000,000), to 1950 sales of $74 million and a book value for the stock of $12,000,000. But, in letters to stockholders, Green had a ready retort: how come the company hadn't paid a single dividend during its 13-year convalescence...
...train swerved off the main line and sped down a seldom-used spur leading between low hills, straight to the German border. On D-day minus one, Truksa had motorcycled to Asch and thrown a switch...
There aren't any formal standards that help the Admissions Office spot the "well equipped" man. Since the idea business man is no introvert, the school is definitely not hunting just for grinds with good marks. (The chief college grad area represented in the Class of 1952 is "B minus.") Instead the school pains takingly studies a man's entire past performance, and, with four applicants for every available place, the Admissions Office has a wide selection to pick from...