Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't the Stadium. It wasn't even Saturday. As a matter of fact, it was Monday, but to more than 400 screaming fans and 40-odd Eliot and Kirkland footballers who fought out the House title for 1947, it was the big game...
...odd politician-an idealist and a dismal campaigner. But he burned to help the common man. He was thrice elected Republican Governor of New Hampshire, but when Franklin Roosevelt began the New Deal, Winant disregarded G.O.P. disapproval to back...
...will be higher." So said Edward C. Orr, president of the National Shoe Retailers Association, at the opening of the National Shoe Fair in Chicago last week. By the time the four-day fair ended, his gloomy prediction was on the way to coming true. Most of the 600-odd manufacturers who attended held out for price increases ranging from 10% to 15%. As a result, purchases by some 12,000 buyers were considerably smaller in physical volume, though not in dollar value. This meant that shoes this winter and spring would be scarcer and higher...
...there were any odd, unwithered hopes lying around loose before Saturday's football game with Princeton, they must have died a painful death before nightfall. Black as the 1947 grid season looked before, blacker does it look now for the tattered colors of the Crimson...
Bound personnel-wise to Princeton if not financially or administratively, the Institute for Advanced Studies offers an opportunity for "post-postgraduate" work to a select group of 30-odd top U. S. scholars. These men freely elect their mentors from a faculty of 16 in an environment stripped of lectures, examinations degrees. Figures such as Albert Einstein lend the stature of their thought. But "the most important thing that can come out of the Institute," wrote then director Frank Aydelotte in 1943, "is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, so much as the general...