Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half years' work, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. finally came to the end of the incredibly complicated financial web of forgeries, theft, fraudulent bookkeeping, and companies which existed only in Kreugers imagination. As trustee of the bankrupt International Match Corp., an American concern and biggest of 140-odd subsidiaries of the huge holding company, A/B Kreuger & Toll; Irving Trust submitted its final, 171-page report on its stewardship. The box score...
Last week he was inaugurated as president. He hopes to condense his small college's unwieldy curriculum, substituting ten majors for the present 30-odd, on the theory that small liberal colleges spend too much time aping their big brothers, the universities. But for himself, President Gould plans no changes. He refused to move into the presidential mansion. Asked if he was through exploring, he said: "My God, I hope not. . . . Exploration ... is the physical expression of man's intellectual longing." And he will continue to wear red ties...
That afternoon (at 4:21 by some odd coincidence), a cable was delivered to me at the TIME office. It read: SEND SIZES SUIT, NECK, WAIST AND SOCKS. CLOTHES RUINED BY MOTHS. GOOD LUCK, LOVE. Now I was beginning to feel like a civilian. After all, who ever heard of moths destroying G.I. clothes...
...many a Thanksgiving Day dinner table, a returned veteran carved unrationed turkey; 159,000-odd sun-browned and sturdy servicemen were already back home for good, and more were coming. And Canada had money in the bank. It had a job well done to look back upon, a bright future ahead. The war had been expensive ($15,210,394,166 to March 31, 1945), but the dividend was a vastly increased productivity. Canada had been spared the ghastly ruin that befell the nations of Europe. And, unlike Europe, Canada this year would not be tormented by want of food...
...come to us with some pretty odd requests. Quoting Miss Burbank...