Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been challenging the frontiers of physics, armed with only his intellect, a pencil, and paper. Far removed from most undergraduates, only dimly aware of the machinery of collegiate life, and vaguer even about his own past, Schwinger dwells in a world apart. His personality spills out only in odd stories--his reputation for writing with both hands on the blackboard, his night-owl habits, and his excellence at ping-pong...
...Dorothy Carnegie's How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead . . . I have the happy fortune to be married to a gentleman and a scholar, a Samuel Taylor Coleridge sort of man, and I hope that he will stay "useless and lovable . . ." Isn't it odd that Mr. Coleridge is still read and admired after over a hundred years? I wonder who's going to remember the backslapping Mr. and Mrs. Dale Carnegie...
...Witt, 46, both Polish-born, see nothing odd in their hyphenated approach to their work. "When people ask us why we collaborate," says Him, "we ask, 'Why don't others do the same?' ' The single artist, he explains, must play critic and artist alternately. "Working together, we have this corrective thing all the time." Says Le Witt: "If you want to know who does what, we can't tell you anything. We think it's more interesting to leave people guessing...
This was an odd football game, one which started with a overpowering display of Harvard running power, but which saw Brown falter when hindered by a bad call on a kick, fight back in the second half, and then almost tie up the game...
...Vigilance Committee, dating from the college's earliest history, assumes the job of instilling in each incoming class Brown's friendly tradition. The "V. C," meets the freshmen armed with 600 odd beanies, a list of college rules, and a collection of Brown songs...