Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health Department of a given city--does it do good work? How are the voters to know if the hundred-odd cases of typhoid fever that occur in the city should all be laid as a heavy responsibility on the culpable shoulders of the members of the Board of Health, or if the success of these gentlemen in keeping the number down to such a low figure as one hundred entitles them to the gratitude of the whole body of citizens. Is the infant mortality in the city very low as a result of the conscientious and progressive work...
...With a group that has averaged less than 25 members in the House of Representatives and has never numbered more than 22 supporters in the Senate, it is evident that we can not be a 'menace to the country'. We couldn't pass bills over the bodies of 480 odd representatives and 74 senators as well as the veto of the president even if we wanted...
...expeditions from America landed there, in 1881, took possession in the name of the United States, surveyed and mapped the country, and then sailed away leaving notice of their discovery on shore in a bottle. This action was regarded as particularly important, as the Island lies some odd hundred miles North of Siberia and is said to dominate strategically all the northeastern part of that country...
Since the University five has won 16 out of its 22 contests this year while the Blue has been able to carry home but three out of twenty odd games, it would seem at first sight as if Coach Wachter's men would find it easy to repeat their triumph of February 7. when they downed the Blue aggregation by the two to one ratio of 26-13. Tonight's game will in all probability see no repetition of this easy victory, however, for Coach Wachter's men will be obliged to fight their hardest to bring the winter...
...same result could be easily obtained in Widener if some room,--for instance one of the lecture rooms on the top floor, unused a large part of the day,--were assigned for this purpose. If there is no space in Widener available, there are odd rooms in some of the other buildings in the Yard which could be converted to this sort of a common-room for day students without much expense or trouble. By establishing such a room in a central location, without the dues contingent upon--membership in the Union; the present "conversation-tables" could be eliminated from...