Word: subtractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, daylight saving begins next week and it would prove amusing during an idle hour or so to figure out once more whether one should add that extra hour or subtract it and still catch his train. Having made the computation, he can record the results for use when he next wants to use such information and then if he ever really wants to be sure he can telephone the railroad station...
...figures play around in the pate of Marion Talley last week as she sped from Buffalo, N. Y., to Quincy, Ill. Fifty (that stood for the number of concerts scheduled),* by $3,000 (the approximate fee) multiply and subtract expenses. . . . The figuring held no terrors for her. She had excelled in arithmetic back home in the Kansas City school-in arithmetic, deportment and singing. Singing had made her a Metropolitan Opera star at 19. Arithmetic broadened into a good business sense which enables her to make her own contracts to her own good advantage. In deportment there has been little...
...Wilson got 70 votes from the States of California, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Utah, Washington, West Virginia. Suppose Governor Smith should get none of these votes: subtract them from Wilson's total of 277, the result...
...list be reconsidered. Of the states which voted for Woodrow Wilson and which, in the above estimate, have so far been left to Governor Smith's credit, Democratic chances are weakess in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wyoming, all of whose votes total 39. Subtract 39 from Governor Smith's previous total of 266-the result is 227: Governor Smith is defeated...
Repertory The Adding Machine--8.15 o'clock. Doesn't add much. But neither does it subtract. Modern inchoate...