Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madists were across the Rio de la Plata estuary in Uruguay, seeking a new public. In Montevideo's Salon Aiape, visitors gaped and grinned at sculpture of strangely articulated sticks of wood by Giyulia Kosice (see cut), an irregularly framed abstract painting by Arden Quinn, a collection of odd pieces of paper covered with gibberish...
...moment, the industry is plagued by odd-cent price rises (e.g., candy bars have gone up to 6?), which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...
Like the rest of the industry, National Slug is also looking ahead. In the works are: 1) a machine that will sell fresh meat and fish at odd prices (e.g., a pound of fish for 38?); 2) a soft-drink dispenser that will take as large a coin as a quarter, return 20? in change. In ten years, the happy gadgeteers expect the automatic vending industry to be one of the nation's top retailers, gross about $3 billion...
...bring listeners the wisdom and beauty of the Bible in dramatic, exciting form." But Chapter I of Katharine Seymour's eleven episodes about Adam & Eve was more soap opera than Scripture. Excerpts: "As the years passed, Adam & Eve [played by Phil Clarke, 43, and Eleanor Phelps, 30-odd, in their best Sunday voices], haunted always by memories of the paradise they had lost, struggled to build a new life for themselves and their children. ... It is an afternoon in early summer. . . . Eve, preparing the evening meal . . . looks up eagerly as her husband enters...
...Acapulco or bust" cried 80-odd 'Cliffedwelling mermaids this week as they breasted, crawled, and dog-paddled through Radcliffe's annual marathon which kept the Mason Street pool in a state of frenzy for five hectic afternoons. The distance from here to Acapulco was as nothing to the Amazons, since each length of the pool was considered 12 miles...