Word: subtractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your periodical is a cosmopolitan cocktail. Subtract one ingredient, and you spoil it. Add one, and it won't taste the same...
...only unsatisfactory but are harmful to the future of this country." The immediate result of the bill will be to relieve taxpayers of 25% of the income tax payable this year. This will be refunded without request if full payment has been made. Those paying in quarterly installments may subtract 50% of the amount to be paid on June 15 and 25% of the amount to be paid on each of the two ensuing payments...
...comedy of human nature would seem to require fine character-drawing, and this we have--in the first act. The mystic poet of the soil, Beem Sprattling, seeker after Truth in the subtract, follower of the "Oninvisible and the Onbeheord-of," keen admirer of "this fine pretty world," and frequent tenant of the county jail, is introduced with delightful effect. There are also the native flapper, Goldy, and her dangling swain, Roosh. A pleasing picture of the two old people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent...
...most important of all things in rowing is the psychological situation-the mental attitude: lack of confidence, confidence, or over-confidence. This is more important in rowing than in almost any other sport: the cumulative effect of eight minds is amazing. A change of attitude will add or subtract three lengths overnight. Any attack which indicates lack on confidence in our crew and their coach is bound to hurt, not help: and the editor of the CRIMSON is only making it harder for eight unusually good oarsmen to show that they can combine as a unit and really...