Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens, of course, think this an odd way of getting things done. If President Truman, for instance, should declare that he would take nothing but water with a little bicarbonate of soda until the country behaved itself (i.e., acted as Mr. Truman thought it should), the U.S. public would not know what to think, or what to do about it. Last week, Mr. Truman was aboard the battleship Missouri (see The Presidency), eating very well. He was due back in the White House this week. And when he got there he would be confronted with problems as complicated...
Agriculture now believes it has the situation under control. Its bee scientists fasten a virgin queen in a small tube and drug her with carbon dioxide. After a while she lays a mass of unfertilized eggs, which can develop only into drones (another odd bee characteristic). The bee men rear these parthenogenetic males to maturity. Then they use one of them to inseminate artificially the same, still-virgin queen. Thereafter her eggs are fertile and develop into females (workers or queens) fathered by her own fatherless...
...shows had an impressive line-up of scripters: Euripides, Ibsen, Shaw, Christopher Marlowe, Rostand. They ran from a carefree one hour, one minute (Shaw's Man of Destiny") to an odd one hour, 27 minutes (Euripides' Trojan Women). Producers were from the top BBCrust. The casts were sparked with big British theatrical names...
...take care of anything from croup to whooping cough, two children's health centers, sponsored by the U.S. Federal Security Administration, are currently available to the 1500 odd offsprings of veterans at the University. Located at 70 Mt. Auburn Street and at the Hygiene Department Offices in Harvardevens Village, the clinics are dispensing free examinations, immunization, treatment, and diagnosis...
Brigadoon. Imaginative musical about an odd Scottish village (TIME, March...