Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minus a Tentacle. 1965's biggest winners were those who capitalized on this hardheaded attitude. "There is no vote in this city which can be taken for granted," concluded Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay after New York's overwhelmingly Democratic voters elected him mayor (see cover story). His comment could have been echoed by politicians in scores of cities and counties where the electorate refused to buy a pig in a poke...
...following scale of equivalents will be used in translating the thesis grade into the final letter grade: Summa and Summa minus A Magna plus A- Magna B plus Magna minus and Cum plus B Cum and Cum minus...
Dayton Place? Entitled A Family Album, it opens with an ancestral chart that looks at first glance like the Stuart family tree, minus the bar sinister. Before running off the page, it traces Lyndon's lineage back to his paternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Sukey Johnson, whose date and place of birth are apparently unrecorded. Dozens of family photographs portray L.B.J.'s sturdy forebears, from Father Sam, looking astonishingly like L.B.J. on a bad day, to Maternal Great-Grandfather George Washington Baines Sr., a fire-breathing Baptist preacher who was president of Baylor University and the deadliest...
Dartmouth leads the country in rushing defense, having held its first two opponents, New Hampshire and Holy Cross, to minus five yards. The Indians are also first in total defense; having permitted a scant 117 yards per game...
...them as "flagrant." One history student got an F and a C in two marking periods, but averaged a C on his transcript. A pupil with two F marks in French got a passing D on his transcript, while a biology student with a Dplus, a D-minus and a D ended up with...