Word: odd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Statistics are interesting occasionally, when there are real flesh and blood persons "statisticised," and some of ours have been taken lately, which are not without suggestiveness. In the first place, one hundred and odd girls represent twenty-two States and Territories in our Union, and Canada and Nova Scotia outside. But whether they come from Wyoming or Texas, California or Florida, they are as like as peas when they march to church in procession on Sundays, in their sealskins and great Gainsborough hats with flowing plumes. Dame Fashion has regulated the outer woman, and it must be Mother Nature...
...Bates College students, according to the old plan, eke out their living by teaching and odd work in vacations. Some of the lady students are said to earn from $6 to $8 per week by book-canvassing. Some of the men both preach and canvass for books...
...Crescent Bicycle Club of Boston is to give a party in Odd Fellows Hall...
...proverb odd and olden...
...game, if in his opinion either side have a distinct advantage, owing to the sun, wind, or any accidental cause; but if the appeal be made after a match has begun, the umpire may only direct the players to change sides at the end of every game of the odd and concluding...