Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandfather, "Uncle Tommy" Meredith, ran a newspaper in Des Moines, The Farmers' Tribune, which cheered for the defunct Populist party. Young Edwin did odd jobs for his grandfather, finally took over the paper. At 25, he jumped at a new publishing venture, started a monthly journal called Successful Farming. The magazine faltered at first, then boomed. Now it has a circulation of some 850,000. Farmers read it avidly, become wise, grow bigger and better crops. In 1914 and 1916, Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were...
...tomes give a clew to the mind of the man: A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, The Nature of Capital and Income, National Vitality, The Purchasing Power of Money, How to Live, League or War? etc. And all this was not enough. So Professor Fisher in his odd moments became a businessman-inventor. He conceived the "Index Visible" filing system, was made first president of that company which recently merged with Rand-Kardex Bureau...
...correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than "odd...
...chief of the election results, as I see it, will be the performance of much 'high politics' in Washington during the next two years. By that I mean that the 90-odd candidates for the Presidential nomination who are members of the United States Senate will begin to perk...
...Odd Ways at Westminster", Professor Munro. New Lecture Hall, Government 1. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides...