Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Editions. "We have a market for our magazine in 180 different countries," Ryus explained. "We sell TIME for kroner, drachmai, rials-about 120 currencies all told. Two of the newest mediums of exchange are the rupiah of Indonesia and the hwan of Korea." Few of these odd currencies cross Ryus' desk directly, since normally TIME International subscription orders, paid for in local currencies, are cleared through branches of world banks, such as New York's National City, Holland's Amster-damsche Bank, Italy's Banca Commerciale. There the money is converted and credited to TIME...
Cinemactor Marlon (Julius Caesar) Brando, whose eccentricities have never needed jazzing up by Hollywood press-agents, confided to a United Press reporter that he is really quite normal, not the odd number the public reads about in columns and fan-magazine chronicles...
There were precious few jobs for untested young golfers. After a year's drudgery in a restaurant, Sam got his break: a job as shop boy at the Homestead golf shop. For $20 a month he repaired clubs, shellacked and finished woods, did odd jobs, and breathed the atmosphere of golf. One morning an elderly lady guest came into the shop and asked for a lesson. Both pros were busy, so Sam agreed to teach...
...spell "a." He couldn't, and the other children laughed. "I swore I wouldn't learn to read and write, they wouldn't make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into...
...cables, pipe and machinery needed for oil drilling. In the center stood an oil derrick, at one end a helicopter landing space and a small portable bunkhouse. Built by Manhattan's DeLong Engineering & Construction Co. and J. Ray McDermott Co. of Houston, and leased to Humble Oil, the odd-looking dock-barge is the first of its kind in the world, promises to be a great help in the hunt for offshore...