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Word: odd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty-odd members of the Debate Council would not readily admit to such guilt. Clearly, a judge's decision can, and often does, go to the side that makes the better use of the poorer argument. To this extent, most College debators will laugh at themselves and the system that enables them to make black seem white. They are frank enough, too, to admit that they spend many seemingly useless hours debating for the same reasons condemned...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Words and Gestures in an Uncrowded Room | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

Lydia C. Weare, the director of the Center, remembers the early days when "We used to know everybody, the names of their dogs, and all their problems." Now she marvels at the capacity of Brattle House to accommodate 1,600 weekly students enrolled in courses in 70-odd subjects...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Cambridge Chautauqua | 5/15/1956 | See Source »

...wonder what odd capricious whim Could create this figure of visage grim. One thing is clear for all to see Who view her image: no Monroe, she. I can't truly say that I envy the bloke Who owns the lady of the artichoke; Then why go and pay a fortune small, To have her hanging on his wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...should have been a good fit; Dick Russell has not forgotten that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, on his march through Georgia, burned Russell's grandfather's cotton mills and freed his 100-odd slaves. † For his cut-rate installation, after much haggling, Marlborough plunked down ?4,500, a bargain price for Mindelheim, which yielded a'Udy ?1,500 a year to its fief-holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...boast that the marble for the new museum was the biggest single order in Vermont since the U.S. Supreme Court), but insisted on quality. In 45 years of collecting, the Clarks have ranged widely, from Botticelli and Piero della Francesca to Puvis de Chavannes. The museum still has 30-odd Renoirs tucked in the basement, one soon-to-be-opened gallery hung with Italian primitives. The rest of the Clarks' collection, housed in residences both in the U.S. and abroad, is so large and dispersed that Museum Director Peter Guille has yet to catalogue it. But in paintings already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: CROSSROADS MUSEUM: CLARK ART INSTITUTE | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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