Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Council claims about 1,000,000 members. Federal Council membership: 27,500,000-odd...
Died. Frederic William Goudy, 82, dean of U.S. type designers; of coronary thrombosis; in Marlboro, N.Y. A penniless bookkeeper until he was 33, Goudy turned to his rare craft with the conviction that printed words should aid, not distract, the reader. Of his hundred-odd simple, honest designs for printing type, six are now classic, one (Kennerly) is considered by some experts the most beautiful since the work of 18th Century Master William Caslon...
...Odd Man Out. James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer and the people he meets (TIME, March...
Conventional examinations won't look so-tough this weekend in spite of impending finals and the reams of reading period study which optimistic faculty members have laid out for this week, for four hundred-odd women, many of them the corn-fed, home-bred variety, start a mass descent on the College today...
This summary wiping out of the activities of the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs does in a way possess a curious internal logic. The action "saves" 31-million-odd dollars in OIC outlay; it pleases those congressional minds who feel that the existence of America is, as such, her own best propaganda; and it ends the life of the OIC, the successor of that OWI which so many Congressmen unflinchingly regard as communistic...