Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many reports, the Financial Report is in dire need of spring housecleaning. Many little odd balances could be written off with ease, but I sympathize with you. Such errors as $143.40 from the National Research Council for making and testing of a series of sound slide films on a single subject, under the direction of the Late Francis T. Spaulding Professor of Education. Spaulding left Harvard in 1945, and died...
...Many odd sums are carried year after year on the books because the department on University has temporarily for gotten about them. Apparently the only feasible way to spend a 1944 gift for a memorial of the visit of Churchill to Harvard is for the Prime Minister to come back again...
...problem," admitted an officer at U.S. Air Force headquarters in Ruislip, near London, last week. The decision came none too soon. For months London's sensational Sunday press and gossipmongers in Britain have been feeding a smoldering resentment on the part of Britons against the 35,000-odd U.S. airmen now stationed in their country. The age-old criticisms of the visiting American-brash boastfulness, too free spending, a careless contempt for local manners & morals-have been heard again on every side. Chief source of irritation: loose behavior of a few airmen and the hordes of British prostitutes...
...police official said last night several of the group's 30-odd agents "undoubtedly" operated out of Harvard Square. He declined, however, to mention the location of the book-makers. The individual runners have not yet been apprehended, because they were known only by code numbers and nicknames...
...more myopes per square inch in college than anywhere else in the country. This University is certainly no exception. Continually battered by reading and note-taking, the eyes of almost one out of every four students here need the help of glasses. With such a potential clientele it is odd that the Hygiene Department had not added an eye clinic to its dental and medical facilities...