Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany-once more your partner in world trade," read the posters. Beneath them German sightseers and foreign businessmen crowded their way in to look with interest at the 1,200-odd exhibits of the Hanover Export Fair...
...Janeiro, with a population of 2,000,000, has only one public high school. (There are a hundred-odd others, but they are privately owned, and run for a profit that averages 30% a year...
...white wig-arrived in the U.S. for a month's visit, explained himself to Manhattan reporters. The Lord Chancellor, Jowitt said, is a "sort of combination of a chief justice and a minister of justice." One of the titles of the 1,300-odd-year-old office is Keeper of the King's Conscience. "The King's conscience," confided the Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been on many a plain citizen's mind. How was it in that long judicial wig, in the summer...
...quiet French wine town of Mâcon on the Saone, the hospital's doctors and nurses wore worried frowns. Even Madame Anne-Marie Demussy, the usually calm head nurse, seemed upset. Something very odd indeed was going on. In less than three years, 15 women patients had died mysterious deaths under very similar circumstances...
...isolated mission in the red Arizona desert, 40 miles from the nearest paved road, 85 eminent physicians and surgeons assembled last week at an odd sort of convention. The doctors had come from all over the U.S., partly for an outing but mainly to pay their respects to the mission's remarkable chief: big (235 Ibs.) Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, 62, who is rounding out 20 years of medical missionary work among the Navajo Indians...