Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were 30-odd somewhere inside, but for a long time nothing happened. It takes time to gather rescue crews. It was noon when helmeted, heavy-shod men began going in, laden with masks, tools, equipment. When the first crew came out again, black-faced and exhausted, the word they carried...
Anti-Climax. Yet it was an odd time for a celebration. New Year's Eve would inevitably come as an anticlimax to the wild triumph and relief of V-J day; the new era of peace would hardly have begun...
...cession of this territory would greatly improve Russia's strategic position by making the Black Sea even more of a Soviet lake. Of its 2,000-odd miles of coast line, the U.S.S.R. now has about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...York's Union Theological Seminary had a housing problem. Faced with an unexpected influx of 60-odd returned veterans next semester (two-thirds of them married, some with children) Henry Pitney Van Dusen's interdenominational residence halls were stumped. Union's housing problem spotlighted a broader and more interesting question: has the war turned more young men than usual to the service...
...wait until there was an epidemic before she made a formal complaint. The Shawmut Mining Co. said they could do nothing: they had been in receivership since 1905 and in another six years the mines would be worked out and abandoned. But her father had doctored the 400-odd miners and their families for 40 years before her time and she felt responsible for them. Dr. Betty resigned...