Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admissions people are impressed with a regal straight A in organic; but they are enchanted with a common B-plus in a stiff mathematics course; and they are orgastic over a vulgar C-minus in physical chemistry...
...Segmented grades" aggravate the pressure which Forster hopes the proposed system would ease. "It's much better to strive for honors than to try to go from a C plus to a B minus," he noted. An honor grade would be broader than the present...
Wisconsin's freshman Democratic Representative John A. Race, 50, made it picture-window clear that he has no conflict-of-interest problems. His statement of assets: 1961 Chevrolet, $1,000; home in Fond du Lac, $7,200 (minus a $6,000 mortgage); cash, $500. In fact, since he quit his $125-a-week machinist's job to campaign in July, he, his wife and daughter "have been eating bean soup and peanut-butter sandwiches"; and he borrowed $1,750 from his campaign fund, and $1,500 from the bank to tide him over until he could start collecting...
...motorcycle.) (An exam is like the grace of God; you can take or leave it--but you'd better take it.) The conversation I heard at breakfast and Dean Ford's remark kept running through my head. "A...C plus...for the rest of his life...B minus...A minus...
...Yard, the Glee Club is singing Bach's Mass in B Minus. I become aware of a faint pulsing rhythm out of time with the music. El Forbes continues to conduct, but the pulse grows louder, more intense--it is obviously the sound of marching feet and many hoarse voices shouting. Suddenly a flank of students rounds the corner of Widener. I can hear their chant now as they bust through the lines of the Glee Club, and enter Widener...