Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little girl she helped her mother get breakfast for 20-odd boarders, did the dishes, made the beds and went to school. But she still found time for three miles of swimming every day. Now that she is 19, Ann Curtis is convinced that the business of being a champion swimmer is a full time job in itself. Two months ago she quit her home economics course at the University of California. She felt that she had to concentrate if she wanted to win three of the women's National A.A.U. indoor championships...
...setting the lovely, wooded country of rolling hills known in Kentucky as the "Pennyr'y'l." "I went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily for the mail, trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned not to eat green persimmons and occasionally walked eight miles to Munfordville to broaden my horizon by seeing the train come in, learning the fine points of horse trading or listening to learned legal and political discussion on County Court...
A.F.T., a 29-year-old organization which claims 35,000-odd members and has a sorry history of schisms and Communist infiltration, is the only nationwide teachers union (though C.I.O. has recently set up a National Teachers Division of its State, County and Municipal Workers of America). As public servants, teachers are not protected by the Wagner Act. In Covington, Ky., a Kentucky colonel who had taught a high-school class for 17 years was demoted recently to a fourth-grade job largely because of his A.F.T. activities. In Arlington Heights, Ill., 14 of a total of 28 teachers have...
...will short-wave daily to every corner of the world in 20-odd languages and dialects, including the Japanese...
Marshall Field III, a gentleman of leisure for the first 40-odd years of his life, has spent the past ten years trying his best to be ungentlemanly. It comes hard. This week, in his first book (Freedom Is More Than a Word; University of Chicago Press; $2.50), he attempts to tell, in very gentlemanly fashion, what...