Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from every angle is winningly simple-minded: four thousand strings equal desert motif; four thousand strings plus two harps equal sea motif. The beginning, which shows O'Toole meeting his death in a post-war motorcycle accident, is irrelevant to everything else. This of course makes the entire movie, minus about three minutes, an enormous flashback...
...Negro David Starr Jordan High School, thence to a full athletic scholarship at Whittier College, where his size (6 ft. 4 in.. 204 Ib.) and blinding speed (9.8 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) made him an All-America end in small-college football. He also kept A-minus grades in his political science major, was student-body president. Turning down pro football offers, Stan will pursue Oxford's famed "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), aims to become a lawyer. He is Whittier's first Rhodes scholar...
...apparent, therefore, that had I wished to take the low road to the Cum Laude degree, my senior program could have consisted on French E, F, G, and H--in which I would have needed only 3 C-minuses and a D-minus. We can fairly conclude that while obtaining the Bachelor's degree Cum Laude, I could also have caught up on three years of sleep...
...Brown tackled Starr in his own end zone for a 2-point safety. Nor was Starr the only victim. Ordinarily, the Packers can count on big chunks of yardage from rough, tough Fullback Jim Taylor, top ground gainer in the N.F.L. In the first half, Taylor was held to minus 3 yds. in seven carries...
...February, 1961 the Faculty adopted a motion proposed by Gill that opened junior and senior tutorial to all students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who have a satisfactory average of C minus or better...