Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these 35-odd items could be blown up into full-size news stories, but our editors feel that when a man everybody knows gets married, or a woman whose name isa household term has a baby, etc., a brief recording of these events is all you want to know. They are a part of the condensation which permits TIME to tell as much of the week's news as it is possible to tell...
Capt. Luckel has a nose for Miscellany. An inveterate collector of the odd in news items, he snips them out of the newspapers, jots them down from the radio. He sent us his first contribution in 1930 because it especially amused him. It was a little item about a Washington, D.C., woman who won a divorce from her husband because of an infidelity he allegedly committed 31 years previously...
...precious bones-six skulls, a half-dozen lower jaws, 100 teeth, a few odd fragments of arms & legs-were carefully packed in two unpainted wooden boxes. First the boxes were stored in a secret vault at Peking Union Medical College. Then they were spirited away and delivered to the U.S. Marine barracks for shipment to New York City. That was in the fall of 1941. It was the last seen of Peking Man and fragmentary friends...
Early in the war, the University was called on by the Surgeon General's Office to test the 14-odd standard commercial hearing aids on the market, and if possible to make recommendations for increasing their efficiency. Not only were those, initial goals realized, but revolutionary principles in the fitting of such devices were discovered in the process, declared Davis...
...story is an odd hodgepodge of farce and parable, derived-almost by brute force-from Clyde Brion Davis' novel, The Anointed. The novel recounted the modest adventures of a philosophical sailor named Harry Patterson. As transmuted by the Hollywood alchemists, Harry Patterson becomes Clark Gable, a noisy, sociable bosun, while the seagoing philosopher is a broken-down Irish deck hand (Thomas Mitchell). Trouble begins when the two of them drift into the San Francisco Public Library to do a little research on the matter of the Irishman's soul. There, looking icy and poised behind her librarian...