Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bicycle craze. Princess dresses ? monkey-dinners at Newport ? What's Wrong With Our Colleges? (that hardy perennial)?McKinley? the Bland-Allison Act?Battles and Leaders of the Civil War?Cartoons of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II? Joseph Chamberlain?Franz Josef? how odd they look...
...with Dr. Ralph H. McKee, professor of chemical engineering at Columbia. "Intarvin," meaning "intermediate fat," is so named because one molecule of it contains 17 carbon atoms instead of the 16 or 18 usual in ordinary fats. This is the first successful commercial manufacture of a fat with an odd number of carbon atoms, and is hailed as a triumph of synthetic chemistry...
...Northfield, Mass., last week, draws attention to the fountainhead of the conference movement in the U. S. This annual conference was started by Dwight L. Moody. It has grown quietly from year to year, until this year over 100 are on the waiting list for accommodations, and the thousand-odd who make up the delegations that pack the auditorium come from the ends of the earth. The Rev. John Hutton, of London, is the most popular preacher this Summer. (Mr. Moody's first successes as an evangelist came in England and Scotland...
France finally ratified the Washington Naval Disarmament Pact. As a result the Navy Department has some 20 odd war vessels to dispose of as junk...
Five years later the trio reassembles to audit the proceeds of their gamble. After going over the books for two acts the girl decides the coin spun in her favor. The odd man seeks solace with a finale flapper...