Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faith in their professors has been evinced by undergraduates of the University of North Carolina. According to the New Student (intercollegiate news bulletin), a group of North Carolina seniors petitioned for an addition to the 1,000-odd courses listed in the catalog-for a comprehensive course on Marriage...
...that the "old Courtney style" was the form taught by the famous Cornell mentor of years past before he had found the winning stroke last spring the Cornell crew seemed to be recovering all the time; the stroke was short and ineffective, the recovery labored and awkward. The odd feature of the recovery, the turning of the blades just before the catch so that the blades are almost parallel to the water with the back sides prominent, has been retained. However, Coach Lueder has wild on fantastic theories. Everything is subjected to analysis. It must be able to satisfy...
...proposal would have put the Park Avenue church beyond the pale and ruled out of Baptist councils the "Rockefeller modernists", as this church and its officials was, referred to in the convention. But it obtained only one thousand odd votes from the three thousand delegates present. Whether or not due to the abstention of the Park Avenue church from active controversy, the moderates won, the Baptist church refused to add another division to the atomizing of protestant churches, and the modernists within its walls have tacit consent to continue liberal policies...
...Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. assembled last week at Washington (see p. 25) for its 14th annual meeting. The meeting endured four days. More than 30 speakers were on the program, but of the 30 odd, there were only three politicians whom the business men chose to address them. One of them was Herbert Hoover, who is, not excepting the more generally recognized Secretary of the Treasury, the chief economic policymaker of the Administration?the former mining engineer, brilliant in his business, but with no talent for the handshaking and good fellowship which go to make the ordinary...
Where indeed? Author Bakeless, scanning well the entire globe, presents a dispassionate exposition of the expansion problems of Japan, Italy and Germany, etc., which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...