Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After seven days, with another week still,to go, Martin & Lewis had outdrawn such favorites as Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra to break the Paramount's record for weekly receipts. The new mark: $150,000. Counting up their own take (50% of the gross, minus salaries for an orchestra and supporting players), the comics found that their hard work had paid them the highest one-week salary in the history of show business...
...fearing that the rival classes might suffer worse damages than had already befallen their graven image (now minus an arm and a foot due to wear & tear), Amherst officials persuaded her transient keepers to give her up, retired her to the college museum behind three locked doors. There she gathered dust for seven tranquil years, until she was mysteriously beheaded by ill-wishers, promptly reheaded by the late President Stanley King, who tracked down her tortured top. After that, Sabrina was bolted to the floor...
...Balance in the College" does not mean a student body of "all-around boys." As Dean Bender points out, it is not the mission of Harvard College to educate a vast horde of C-minus "good citizens." Bender and others realize that Harvard is too important an institution to tamper with. "Superior academic intelligence is still our primary concern," Bender emphasizes...
Pumpton was a C-plus, B-minus student in the Class of 1947. He was somewhat alcoholic, somewhat sensual, more or less athletic, and rather scholarly in courses that he enjoyed. He was, in fact, average...
...Standing on the platform before a light-blue backdrop on which was painted one-half of the world (minus the Western Hemisphere), the speaker shouted the same words again, and once more the crowd broke into a high frenzy. Three times more he shouted the same words, greetings to the 'heroic nations of the U.S.S.R.,' and each time the crowd nearly blasted him from the platform...