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Word: odd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odd Americans who heard one of his speeches (more than 50) in the West last week, Harry Truman might have seemed like a doughty fighting man who had not a doubt about his election. But those who saw him at close range could see that the strain of the campaign was beginning to tell. Harry Truman got sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: They'll Tear You Apart | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Headed by Harvard's emeritus Ralph Barton Perry, and including Princeton's emeritus Christian Gauss, Columbia's Henry Steele Commager, Henry Seidel Canby, 100-odd others. *In 1944 he campaigned unsuccessfully for state senator (his strategy: "Mostly to keep my trap shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Student Apathy League, Harvard's only side of the road political organization, came sleepkwalking into its second term yesterday. Boasting no boosters, solicitors, or lapel snatchers the apathy league holds together its 3000 odd members by the sheer force of inertia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bottle Is Key to Apathy Leaguers Lack of Program | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...Soldiers Field the accent was on defense. The three and a half hour workout started with skull work in the Field House and ended with 40-odd players doing windsprints by the light of the television tower; in between was mostly football...

Author: By Don Carswell, | Title: Valpey Sets Up Defenses for Lions | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...class of 1949, wearing caps and gowns for the first time and marshaled by Class president Luretta Davis, will lead the line of 900-odd undergraduate and 350 graduate students as the college files to the church from the Radcliffe Yard. Annex officials and staff members will precede the students across Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Opens 70th Year In Noon Ceremonies Today | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

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