Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other air crashes last week took the lives of 54. At Key West, Fla., a twin-engined Navy trainer practicing blind flying rammed into a Cuban airline's DC-4. The Navy plane disintegrated; the airliner flew on minus part of a wing for almost a minute, then plunged into the sea. All 43 aboard the two planes were killed...
...France," says Auriol, "will fight for the victory of common sense." Auriol's career and his present position exemplified some of the main arguments for both an optimistic and a pessimistic view of France's future. On the plus side: his integrity, his Resistance record. On the minus side: his identification with the feeble "third force" that has failed to arouse France against Communism...
...line fell somewhere in Group IV. Seniors, to be in the upper half, had to be in the top one-third of the Group; juniors, top two-thirds; sophomores, top four-fifths, and freshmen, top five-sixths. Rank within a group is determined on the basis of plus and minus grades...
Strauss: Fledermaus (Lily Pons, soprano; Ljuba Welitch, soprano; Richard Tucker, tenor; Charles Kullman, tenor; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; John Brownlee, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). The Met's hit of the season, minus Patrice Munsel (who has a Victor contract). Recording: good...
...author of "Ice Hockey" a Barnes & Co. best-seller--has a few compensations. One is that Dartmouth, minus Choukas, beat Boston College in overtime...