Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their familiarity with the world-at-large outside of the U.S. is impressive. Most of them have been abroad (to a total of 40-odd countries), and 32% have lived in one or more foreign countries all over the world. As a result almost all (85%) of them speak one or more foreign languages (including Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Turkish), and a number can get along fluently in three, four or five...
...year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious historical fact. MARCH OF TIME, with the cooperation of 20-odd scientists, who appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more...
Analyzing the U.S. census, he discovered an odd discrepancy in the population of native whites: between 1900 and 1910, the group which was aged 10 to 14 in 1900 somehow grew instead of shrinking. When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population. Other studies showed that every year some 20,000 Negroes unaccountably disappeared from the census statistics. The obvious explanation: the Negroes had become native "whites...
...basic fact that amazes the British: the Code is a voluntary brake Hollywood puts on itself. Its clearest purpose: to keep non-Hollywood censors-official and amateur-out of the industry's hair. (The Code's dozen-odd pages of printed rules need no explanation. Samples: "Adultery . . . must not be ... justified, or presented attractively. . . . Complete nudity is never permitted...
Escape in Passion, like its predecessors, is a novel with a vast and varied cast. Its 400-odd characters - including an orphan boy, an electrician, an absconding millionaire, an actress, a smattering of Cabinet ministers-have one notable advantage over Balzac's and Zola's 19th Century people: Romains' travel...