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Word: odd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Under the Moran plan, an ironclad schedule of graft rates was instituted-$10 to $35, depending on the size of an installation. Most of the city's 1,000-odd contractors were thus able to predict the bribe necessary to get a burner or tank certified for operation, and the more venal among them were able to pass the cost along to the customer in their early estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Systematic Graft | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...organizational odd jobs for numerous Communist and Communist-front groups, became known as a handy and trustworthy man with a mimeograph, and wound up in "Pro-4," as select and apparently as important a lot of plotters as over thumbed a copy of "Value, Price, and Profit...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: A Spy Reveals Mysterious, Dull Life | 2/14/1952 | See Source »

...most famous of Knox's witticisms was a limerick on the Berkeleyan idea that things exist only when they have an observer: There once was a man who said: "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Odd Man Out, with James Mason and Pamela Kellino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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