Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Emperor and people enjoy the new freedom. Hirohito chafes at remaining restrictions. At Unzen, Kyushu's beautiful mountain resort, he spotted an odd type of moss growth in a pond. Botanist Hirohito began to wade in after it. His chamberlain tried to restrain him; it was too dangerous. But by this time Japanese photographers had jumped into the pond to take pictures of the Emperor at its edge. "If it isn't dangerous for them," protested Hirohito, "why is it dangerous for me?" Sighed the chamberlain: "If Your Majesty can find a newspaperman's armband...
...benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest satire since Swift's Gulliver's Travels . . .' It's odd that, though [the U.S. and Britain] share the same language, we don't share each other's jokes...
...plants which made the oil that drove the dedication train will turn out about 400 gallons a day-at least ten times as much as has been produced in any of the 15-odd smaller pilot plants so far built by Government and industry. But it was still far short of the 10,000-gallon daily production of a full-sized commercial plant on the scale of those that powered Germany's Luftwaffe during World...
...leading New England colleges have sailing teams of varing sizes and degrees of talent. But only four of these 20-odd schools have more than a dozen boats of their...
...annual ARA regatta is the rubric of the odd-sized sheel season and decides the national championship for little college and club eights. It rotates year after year from one rowing river to another and draws little colleges and clubs from the nation and second and third boats from the big rowing colleges in the vicinity. Its big function is as the final testing course for the nation's single scullers...