Word: subtractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerals printed in italics below are the correct answers to the 105 questions in the current affairs test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract the number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is above the college average. Do not look at these answers until you have finished your answer sheet...
Chief significance of Dr. Machen's new Church, which will probably not subtract more than a few thousand members from the parent organization, is that it liquidates him as ecclesiastical news. He can no longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...
...gave you an uneven number. Speedometers register only in tenths of a mile; so you forget the numbers after the decimal point and multiply again by 1,010 for the key number. From there on it's a cinch. All you have to do is to add or subtract 101 as many times as you want and put in those totals for entries. It had to come out in one of those units...
...handy rule of thumb for the new scoring: to compute non-vulnerable doubled penalties, multiply the number of undertricks by 200, subtract 100; for vulnerable doubled penalties, multiply by 300, subtract...
...Townsend Plan would have meant that for every dollar anyone spent in a store this year he would have had to pay an additional 70? tax. . . . Anyone can figure out for himself the minimum that the Townsend Plan would cost him; he has only to subtract about two-fifths from his expenditures...