Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appropriate Sunday news-item, one of those useful bits of "grape-vine erudition" that serve to fill in odd corners of metropolitan dailies, declares that "more than 35,000,000 Bibles are printed annually." In the same edition appear several columns of the Grant-Manning controversy, which raises a double query in regard to the status of religion. Of these Bibles, eight million are printed in the United States and Canada; and it is estimated that if all those turned out in the last century were evenly distributed, there would be at least two for every family in the country...
...racks, and notes the same authors in periodical after periodical, it is scarcely to be wondered that most of the writing is make-shift and haphazard. Criticism, especially, is filling more and more space; in fact it is the proving-ground of many a young writer, and the incidental odd-jobbery of older hands at the literary game. But it is not highly paid, and since much of it is under commercial influences, it is perfunctory at best, and usually unreliable. A prominent professor, who has won increasing prominence as a critic, seems to act on the principle that indiscriminate...
Propaganda, even of the best sort, has failed so signally in the past few years that the word itself is looked on with suspicion. The most effective means left of making one nation understood by another is through the work of individual missionaries, and the hundred odd scholarship men coming back to America every year will be missionaries of France in the highest sense. It is safe to say that if each of these can interpret the spirit of the French people as well as the grand old man who leaves American shores today, Franco-American relations for the future...
Scene I discloses the room adjoining the chamber in which Man is born, giving a note of lowliness and poverty. There is one large central window with two odd high backed chairs on each side...
...Constructive Criticism Committee of the Business School, since its inauguration in the spring of 1922, has been able to render signal service to members of the school and correct many faults and objections which were made. Of the eighteen odd criticisms received by the committee definite action was taken on all but one. Among the more important changes made were the standardization of notepaper, reorganization of the report writing system, better lighting in the Library, the adoption of anonymous grading of reports, and the revising of proctors' duties...