Word: plus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Should the hares reach home ahead of the hounds by a greater amount of time than that given them at the start, plus five minutes, they and the first hound in shall receive prizes, but should they fail in this, the first two hounds in shall receive prizes...
Total receipts plus bills receivable...
Total expenses plus bills payable...
...many college examinations our friend has gone through in the course of his long experience? Is he any exception to the rule that all school boys just out of leading-strings are beyond noticing anything in their first examination but their own chance of getting an A plus? Does the interesting fact that he would read manuscripts not addressed to him, make such an act justifiable? By what power does he voice the sentiments of the majority in college, when he probably does not know more than twenty or thirty men-and those men in his own class? It seems...
...individual, he was furnished with a book, in which his measurements at the time specified were compared with those of an average man of the same age. If a measurement fell below the average, the fact would be indicated by a minus sign; if above, by the plus...