Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd feature of the foofaraw was that there was no mystery about this "breach of security." In Tokyo Aireview Publisher Jin Imai calmly explained that his staff had merely pieced together specifications of the F-100 just as any good newsman-or intelligence officer-would. After the F-100 was announced 20 months ago, Aireview wrote to North American Aviation, Inc. in California for information about its prize fighter plane...
...useless to look in Etruscan things for "uplift." If yon want uplift, go to the Greek and the Gothic. If you want mass, go to the Roman. But if you love the odd spontaneous forms . . . go to the Etruscans...
...number of Americans who own stock has increased an estimated 1,000,000 in the past two years, bringing the total to about 7,500,000. At least half of them, say brokers, are small investors. Since they frequently buy their stock, in odd lots (less than 100 shares), Wall Streeters regard odd-lot purchases and sales as one of the best measures of what the small investor is doing...
...years, dedicated drama lovers have been bemoaning the decline of the U.S. theater. They have watched the number of legitimate playhouses in Manhattan drop from 75-odd (in 1929) to 32 (in 1955), and have seen the once heavy traffic in road companies dwindle to a mere trickle. Some would agree with New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr's acid contention that "nobody-but nobody-is willing to subject himself to any contemporary theatrical experience he can get out of," but many may be jolted by Critic Kerr's current diagnosis of the ailment...
Among the 160-odd illustrations in the show, one highlight was a little chiaroscuro woodcut attributed to Titian, which served as the frontispiece to an edition of Aretino's poems published in 1537. Titian surely would not have looked down on such an assignment; his greatest paintings were also illustrations-mainly of the Bible and of pagan myths. Whether actually Titian's or not. the Met's woodcut of a poet dreamily worshiping his muse shows a humanistic spirit typical of the 16th century, when artists took life itself for their province, describing it largely in terms...