Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming increasingly apparent that if any book be sufficiently odd either in subject matter or composition its success is assured in the present day market. Any excuse other than an extreme out-of-the-wayness would be difficult to find for the publication of Mr. Cooper's Albanian Tales. The fact that both the people and language of Albania are about as obscure as those of any country on earth is the only element of definite economic value possessed by this collection: that is, if one leaves out of account the expensive binding, and a number of excellent wood cuts...
...days after the great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi died in Africa (TIME, May 28) under the hot sun of northeastern Japan a woman was spading her wheat fields. Her hands were squarish; the palms rough, the backs faintly ridged with thin veins. Her face, rugged and serene, showed her 50 odd years...
...voted before he ever saw the sea or any Eastern city. Steeped in the Hoosier tradition, his 30-odd volumes of verse, essay, fiction, reflect the atmosphere of politics and pioneers...
...controlling force of the combine, International Paper, will own power developments of 1,500,000 h.p., capable of being increased to 3,000,Gigantic as this combine appears, International Paper considered, last week, yet another merger of giant proportions. To the already great capacity of its 30-odd mills, it contemplated adding the resources of the rival Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd. Abitibi Power holdings, developed and in reserve, amount to 700,000 h. p. Timber resources approximate 55,000,000 cords. Its mills can turn out 650,000 tons of newsprint yearly. Should Abitibi merge with International Paper...
Like another newspaper chain owner, famed Frank Ernest Gannett, Publisher Block was trained in the quiet city of Elmira, in the "southern tier" of New York State. He went to Public School No. 1, and in his summer vacations he did odd jobs, ran errands for the Sunday Telegram...