Word: odd
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Yale has been most successful down through the years, with 190 Ivy victories, 95 defeats and 26 ties for a percentage of .652. An odd coincidence is that the all-time standings run in reverse alphabetical order. After Yale come Princeton, .619; Pennsylvania, .593; Harvard, .537; Dartmouth, .4364; Cornell, .4360; Columbia, .312; and Brown...
Sunday, the day of rest, is becoming America's day for doing odd jobs, complains James Bernard Kelley, a Long Island businessman, in the Catholic weekly America. "Houses are painted, roofs are replaced ... automobiles dismantled and polished." Three years ago Kelley got to thinking about his boyhood Sundays, when "I can never recall a nail driven or a blade of grass shorn." Kelley and his family have since done their chores on Saturdays. The result is that "our lawn was never in such good condition . . . More than that, the keeper of the lawn has never been in such good...
...While most of his time is spent with the auto divisions, Curtice also runs Frigidaire, the diesel divisions (G.M. is the biggest U.S. maker of diesel locomotives) and the rest of G.M.'s 4O-odd divisions. Among them: Delco radios, motors, etc.; Allison engines; AC Spark Plug...
Coughlin shows us the young author as the townspeople of Oxford, Mississippi saw him in the years following the first world war. Not much of a success at anything, borrowing money from his friends and doing odd jobs of carpentry to live, he wandered through the streets silently, sometimes barefootel, and stood musing for hours in front of the old curthouse, a proud, shabby questionmark...
...sophomore class had 14.2 percent termed "insufficient and unsatisfactory," compared to 11.1 percent of the junior class and 9.7 percent of the freshman class. The figures released by Kennedy did not include the senior rankings nor odd classifications...