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Word: subtractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awarded 25 points for reading this far, and you can score additional points by answering the questions without cheating. You get 34 points for each correct answer, but you must subtract two points for each one you miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North Station Follies: The 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden' Quiz | 3/20/1974 | See Source »

...rest of the ground rules were standard: each player would begin with a given number of points, shoot at a fiber board marked off in 20 pie-shaped sections with a score value of from 1 to 20, then subtract the points he scored in each three-dart round; each game had to be won on a double (zinging a dart into the tiny outer double ring) worth the exact number of points remaining. First to reach zero would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showdown at Trafalgar | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...after an electronic eye scans them, the machine gives forth a credit-card-sized ticket. Thereafter, the passenger merely enters whatever station he likes and sticks his ticket into automatic fare collectors that swiftly calculate fares (from 30? to $ 1.25, depending on the length of the journey) and electronically subtract the right amount from the ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Big X for the Bay | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...badly. A lot of the work shown here, from Seymour Rosofsky's clumsy paintings to more overtly "aesthetic" objects like Don Baum's lumpen-surrealist assemblages of dolls' limbs or Cosmo Campoli's inert tributes to Brancusi, is a wretched thesaurus of cliches. But subtract them and a deposit of vitality remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Midwestern Eccentrics | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...awarded an automatic 200 points for reading the Sports Page. Score 37.5 points for every correct answer. Subtract 2 points for every wrong answer. But don't worry: you can't fall below...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: The 'Which Way to Fenway' Sox Quiz | 5/26/1972 | See Source »

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