Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diego Zoo permits vulture-headed guineas, crested screamers and wild turkeys to roam free over its 200-odd acres. Here, California hair seals are trained for circuses and other zoos...
...means eclipsed by the new arrivants were the 18 undergraduate 'Cliffers and the 30-odd graduates who have been hanging white chintz curtains in Cabot Hall windows for over two weeks. The mystery of their presence still remained. As a clothing pin canvasser put it last week...
...weeks ago 60-year-old Mr. Lundy began acting a little odd. He told some neighbors: "When people get this old, they ought to be shot." Emily said: "He's not well, but we can help...
...Odd Man Out. James Mason in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer (TIME, March...
...years, Herbert Read has written 20-odd books of poetry, criticism and biography (Wordsworth; In Defense of Shelley) and become Britain's top authority on modern art. He is a not uncommon type of his generation-an intellectual who was born early enough to enjoy the traditional tranquillity of Victorian rural England, but who reached an individualistic maturity during the disordered years between two wars. It is in this respect that his autobiography makes good reading-for Read shuns sensational confessions and concentrates on the varying influences that left their marks on his mind...