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Word: odd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom" had other educators worried last week, but for a different reason: they were afraid it meant bankruptcy for their colleges. In School and Society, Colgate's P.R.O., W. Emerson Reck, reported the odd plight of U.S. colleges which are going into the red because they have too many customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Curse of Bigness | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

With two alternate resolutions offered by the chapter's international affairs committee before them, in addition to the stand taken by the national body, the 60-odd members debated for nearly an hour on the measure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Proposes Condition for Aid to Greece | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

...Odd Man Out. James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama (TIME; March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Lieut. John Wardle, commanding one of His Majesty's small (100-odd feet) motor minesweepers, was no Captain Bligh. Last week a Royal Court Martial sentenced Wardle to dismissal from his command and forfeiture of three months' seniority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Captain's Table | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...party had hired a cab in Zurich, and gaily roller-coastered 60-odd miles through the Alps to Chur. The ceremony itself was an intimate ten-minute affair at the local registry office. The wedding feast: coffee and cakes in a patisserie. Then back by cab to picturesque Zurich. Then off to Bern and the Hotel Bellevue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Old Complaint | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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