Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farrell himself is busy with the immense chore of packing for forty-odd football players. "These two trunks are for the BaBas," he explains, describing the thick fleece-lined jackets worn by players on the bench. "These here," he smiles, opening one of the big trunks, "are partitioned into small boxes, so we can protect the helmets individually." Other trunks display newly-greased shoes, folded underwear, bright jerseys. Before each game, Farrell and his assistants check over every piece of equipment--shoelaces, hip-and-kidney pads, helmet straps--for every member of the team...
...this enthusiasm which prompted the 1953 team to vote him a football letter, and which for twenty-odd years has prompted the Yale week trimmings at Dillon. Yesterday, in the annual tradition, he set out rows of red flares to light the players' way back to the field house at the end of the last practice. As the players thundered inside to the welcome of music and "Beat Yale!" most were smiling. "You know, this stuff strikes you as sophomoric at first," one said, "but after awhile it gets to you--you know someone really wants you to beat Yale...
...Anthony Eden] can become the man who appoints archbishops and bishops, while the Princess, who merely exercises her social graces and has a very remote chance of succeeding to the throne, should be denied by ecclesiastical prescription the right to marry an innocent party to a divorce. That odd piece of inconsistency may be typically English, but it has more than a smack of English hypocrisy about...
...sides). After him came even greater names: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, who estimated the circumference of the earth (about 24,000 miles), and Hipparchus, who anticipated the modern tables of sines. But to many Greeks, mathematics was also a game. They were the first to notice that adding ten consecutive odd numbers, beginning with i, is the same as multiplying ten times ten, and that adding 20 such numbers is the same as squaring 20. Zeno also pretended to prove arithmetically that if a tortoise got one-tenth of a mile head start, Achilles, running ten times as fast, could apparently...
Between the gods and the faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...