Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corsair, yacht belonging to J. P. Morgan', and the Aloha, belonging to Arthur Curtiss James, ex-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, were among the 200-odd boats seen on the river...
...cheating anybody. What have we finally? A great world-wide producing corporation. The entire population would live in a few cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever it was best fitted for. Likewise a gigantic civil service would put every man in his proper place. If a few odd hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world best suited for that purpose would be so used. An agricultural army, recruited at whatever wages were necessary to secure the requisite numbers, would move out from...
...undoubtedly possible to discover for one's self a great deal of this treasure, in histories of the University, in odd writings of many observers, in accounts by graduates themselves. But this requires time and ingenious delving into curious volumes; and while the few who have taken the pains to search have been richly rewarded, few have sought, and still fewer have learned. An erudite and devoted Society, however, such as the Harvard Memorial Society, could easily stimulate interest, not merely in a selected group, but in the College at large by retailing some of the more choice stories...
...York Stock Exchange dates back to 1817, when it was organized under the name of the "New York Stock and Exchange Board." A century ago this new brokers' market had only 30-odd members and dealt in issues of securities worth only a few million dollars. Today the "Big Board" has 1,100 members and some 500 member-firms, which have over 500 branch offices and 2,500 correspondents' offices all over the country and even beyond its borders; its listed stocks and bonds at par are worth about $60,000,000,000. Excepting only the Stock Exchange...
...Premier to succeed "Papa" Poincaré lay between MM. Herriot and Briand. Briand is the more popular, but Herriot heads the largest party, the Radical-Socialist group (Bloc de Gauche). Many people thought that Poincaré would attempt to get together a small majority, French parliamentary practices permitting such odd procedure, but this is most unlikely...