Word: odd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hang on to its war prisoners. More than 14 months after the war's end, some seven million Germans and Japs were still held prisoner in Allied countries. From Germany and her satellites Soviet Russia alone still retained an estimated four million. From Japan she held a million-odd more. Throughout the U.S.S.R., in coal mines, lumber camps, vineyards, construction camps and factories, from Manchuria to the Urals, they labored for the glory of the new five-year plan. Shortly before the elections in Germany's Russian zone, Moscow released 120,000, but most of these were sickly...
...vote, just the way P.A.C. did. It would have a blacklist, just like P.A.C. Targets of A.A. were such P.A.C.-backed Congressmen as Vito Marcantonio, Hugh De-Lacey, Edmund V. Bobrowicz (TiME, Sept. 30). But as salts in a cooled solution, when agitated, crystallize into some odd shapes, some oddly familiar shapes appeared in A.A. At the bottom...
...dream school was one of 40-odd schools now being opened in the U.S. zone of Germany for the children of occupation troops. The Berlin school started with about 175 U.S. children (40% of them below fourth grade), and a smattering from the Danish, French and Belgian military missions. In 26 years of school experience, Superintendent Edwin M. Boyne of Michigan had never seen such equipment and such first class personnel. Cost to parents: up to the rank of sergeant, nothing; for all others, $4 per month per child...
...till yesterday not one of the 80-odd husbands had picked up his wife, worldly goods, and children to walk out of the Village, and more home-seekers come in every day. To many couples the Village meant the first sembance of privacy in their married lives previous experience with one-room apartments, kitchens and bathrooms shared with four or five other husbands and wives have sent some Villagers into mild rhapsodies on the new adequate facilities they now have...
When bands are playing, the air is crisp, and thousands crowd into the stadium on a Saturday afternoon, a hundred-odd cross country harriers got many an unappreciated shin-splint pounding the turf along the Charles or in the grueling four-mile course at Franklin Park. Always an inconspicuous sport amidst the noise of the football season, and until yesterday the World Series, the Crimson harrier aggregation, nevertheless, within a short two-week practice period, managed to take second in the four-way meet last Friday, and promises to attract some attention in the sports arena this fall...