Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct to the government. They may no longer be evicted from the land they till, even though a zamindar claims it. Those willing to pay ten years of taxes in advance will be granted full ownership of their plots, including the right to sell. Meanwhile, the 2,000,000-odd dispossessed zamindars of Uttar Pradesh, many of them only small holders themselves, will be paid for their lost lands at a rate eight times the land's annual tax value...
From then on, Shakuntala (meaning "baby brought up by the birds") was a marked little Brahman. Her odd mathematical ability improved rapidly with practice, and soon she was giving demonstrations all over India. Later, she moved on to Europe, confounding mathematics experts and makers of computing machines...
...odd have been reported dead or still held in Russia...
More Practitioners. In a way, it was an odd choice, for Hancher's own interests are anything but scientific. "We teach," says he, "and as a university always will teach the physical sciences . . . But our unique concentration of power focuses upon those things which concern men and women as men and "women." Hancher calls these things "humanology," and in the last twelve years Iowa has seen quite a bit of that...
...cash, plus their "sweat equity," the Perkinses had a house easily worth $10,000. In San Francisco's Paradise Cove, Architect Henry Schubart Jr. and his wife are doing even better, so far have finished $25,000 worth of new house for $12,000 in odd hours over three years...