Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activity, from a cornerstone-laying to a charity bazaar. He would open sessions of Parliament, and sign bills. He would have ample time for sightseeing around the country, and would live in grand style in a 75-room Government House on an 85-acre estate at Ottawa, with 40-odd servants at his call...
...fundamental Christian community should be small, since the Chinese work best as part of a small group. Dr. We suggests a "cell" with no more than too-odd people, without paid clergy or any formal church building...
...with Dr. Johnson, "Old England is lost!" From London last week came dread tidings of a changing land: tj In a report deemed a "classic" by Minister Sir Guy Nott-Bower, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...
Last week Al Capp, whose funny-paper characters are busy just being funny, returned to his sharp satire on Gould, Tracy & Co. It began in 600-odd newspapers as suddenly as his casual lampooning of Orson Welles, Gone Wif the Wind, Frank Sinatra, Sewell Avery and Drew Pearson, with a scrawled appeal from hillbilly Li'l Abner Yokum (pattern: early Henry Fonda) to Cartoonist "Lester Gooch...
...eager-beaver business, first as vice consul, then as U.S. shipping board agent, finally as head of Hunt & Co., Bill Hunt had put his monogram on a sizable hunk of the Celestial Kingdom. Through Hunt & Co. he had exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor's eye. So supersecret were his operations that new employes got a stiff liquor-holding test...