Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover subjects. Before he is through, he is certain he will have a complete set of all past TIME issues. But the autograph collection will be another matter. Some 800 of the subjects of TIME'S covers had died before he began his collection. Of the remaining 120-odd "possibles" still alive, most are what he calls "Reds and royalty," two categories that have not widely responded to his appeals, though he has the signatures of Yugoslavia's Tito and Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti, of King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Frederika of Greece...
...live scene in which an American judge (Claude Rains) faces the Nazi jurist (Paul Lukas) whom he has sentenced to life imprisonment. "How in the name of God," asks Rains, "can you ask me to understand the extermination of men, women and innocent children in ______?" For an odd moment the sound went off. Rains's lips moved, but no words came. The missing words: "gas ovens." The show's sponsor, who insisted on the fadeout in sound: the American Gas Association, which supplies some 95% of the gas used in U.S. kitchen ranges...
...intended for human consumption'; we say 'not fit to eat.' We try to remember that we're telling a story to a man who doesn't have much time to read and no big library handy to look up the odd words...
WHAT Tabell uses chiefly in judging the market is his 1,400 "point and figure" charts of individual stocks. For the complete technical picture he also charts daily market volume, number of issues traded, new highs and lows, and odd-lot trading. For point-and-figure charts (also used by other chartists) he notes each change of a point or more in a stock (½ point if the stock is under 20). By the pattern thus established, he determines whether a stock is going to move straight up or down or merely back and fill. In an upward move...
Around this intrinsically fascinating story, Author Flavia Anderson has wrapped the bulky burlap of 50-odd volumes of research. Cliché-laden and crammed with minor figures, the book has a narrative pace roughly that of a Yangtze barge hauled upstream. But it is a historical trip worth taking for readers who can match Author Anderson's labor of love with a love of labor...