Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penttila, representing Finland, has launched the javelin 213 feet. Sund, the Norwegian, has done 204 feet and Molles of Germany and Lindstrom from Sweden have also achieved something like 200 odd feet. America cannot equal these European marks. However, we have improved a great deal in the last few years and America has at least six men approaching the 200 foot mark...
...remains that about one half of the University's operating cost for the year is taken care of by gifts and the income from the permanent endowment. This approximates the situation at Yale and other privately endowed educational institutions. A great deal could be accomplished with the four million odd dollars of gifts and fund, incomes in the way of increasing and raising the standards of facilities for education, were it possible to make the University self-supporting through its members. As it is Harvard can be thankful for being the most richly endowed university in the country, a situation...
...Texas Steer. Will Rogers has become an international humorist. His genial or acidulous lucubrations were once heard, between twirls of a lariat, from the stage of the Ziegfeld Follies; they have since been telegraphed to the New York Times from many odd corners of the globe; they have been accepted with positive pleasure in capitals of Europe. All this has not, obviously, made him proud. Recently, between the moments when a motion picture camera was clicking at his pleasant homely face, a stenographer trailed Funnyman Rogers around the Hollywood studios of the First National Picture Co., jotting down unostentatiously...
There are always several Freshmen who are admitted late, and the work of assigning these odd men to Advisers continues for several days after the opening of College...
Author Updegraff has chosen Author William J. Locke's favorite scene and peopled it with an odd, rude, fascinating cast. Carnal, slangy, amusing, the story flows swifty through its pages over a strong undercurrent of sorrow and pain...