Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the vote it was learned that this year's smoker committee has as yet found no way to pay off the 200-odd dollars debt to the Union Committee and the Council...
Ezra Taft Benson called newsmen to his office one afternoon last week, happily shook hands all around, then leaned back in his leather chair and made an announcement: on Aug. 1 the Department of Agriculture will commence selling its 7,000,000-odd bales of surplus cotton at competitive world prices...
...program would begin with the class of '59 and would mostly affect premedical students. About 90 per cent of the 50-odd concentrators in Biochemical Sciences are pre-meds, only about half of whom are candidates for honors...
...transit company meanwhile has suffered abortive losses. Until last week the situation looked like a question of survival of the fittest. Then civil authorities discovered a little used 1921 statute which prohibits "conspiracy, combination or agreement to interfere or hinder business." A Montgomery grand jury promptly delivered 100 odd indictments, all for Negroes and including 24 clergymen...
Atget liked to take pictures at odd times of day to avoid crowds. Moving stealthily about with his camera equipment in the quiet hours, he was a suspicious character and was actually arrested for spying several times just prior to the First World War. The early morning light in which he took many pictures imparts a foreboding quiet, to his studies...