Word: freak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found that, like Pandora's box, they contained many troubles and a ray of hope. There were only about 20 bids. Of that number, four at first sight seemed fairly satisfactory; about the same number, as Chairman Lasker expressed it, were in "the twilight zone"; there was one freak bid of $1,000,000,000 for the entire fleet; and a dozen or so bids that seemed manifestly unsatisfactory...
Community Book Shop has received from abroad and from markets in this country a number of exceptionally beautiful volumes. The titles are standard, there is not a freak book in the shop...
Playing a slow game that momentarily became slower as the temperature fell, the University nine nosed out the Connecticut Agricultural College team 6 to 5 on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The game while close was dispirited and marred by freak runs...
...annual report of Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, continues to repay adventurous excavators. It has been discovered that he said, apropos of freak " special " courses in the public schools: " If the demands of the schools continue to increase at the present rate, the inability of society to pay the cost must bring about radical curtailments...
...making of "freak" wills has become a common proceeding. Old persons of large fortune and eccentric taste are heard of daily who have left behind them, when they departed this life, some charitable gift to be administered in its own peculiar way. In one newspaper yesterday, at least two such cases offered news for Sunday readers. The first was of a Marblehead resident whose will provided a fund, the income from which should be divided annually among the fathers of twins born in the town during that year. The other was the bequest of a wealthy New York woman, whose...