Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hills. Last year, with the Nationalists finally driven to the hills, the Russians widened the caravan trails through Sinkiang and brought their tanks and heavy artillery to bear on the Kazaks. In four battles, the rebellious tribesmen lost 3,000 killed. Osman was captured and killed. His 5,000-odd survivors split into groups and headed south. Last week, after months of agony, picking their way through uncharted passes across the highest mountains in the world, one party of 120 Kazak men, women & children reached the end of the trail-Mohammedan Kashmir and its "City of the Sun," Srinagar. They...
...fluorochemicals"-compounds just like ordinary organic chemicals (e.g., acetic acid, ether, etc.), except that they have fluorine in their molecules instead of hydrogen. It should be possible, says Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, manager of Minnesota Mining's fluorochemical department, to make fluorochemical substitutes for all the 100,000-odd organic compounds, from TNT to DDT, that chemists have synthesized...
About 4850 B.C., 300-odd human beings, small-boned and slender, settled on a grassy knoll in a valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...
...nation's first enthusiasm for the new, ready-to-serve product, helped make it a national institution. Kellogg gave most of his millions to the Kellogg Foundation for children's charity, pioneered in establishing a six-hour day (at eight-hour wages) for his 2,000-odd employees, and transformed his home town by giving it, among other things, 14 schools, an auditorium and an airport. Twice widowed, he was a gloomy, awkwardly bashful man, with no social life to speak of, and one main diversion: breeding Arabian steeds (including Jadaan, ridden by Rudolph Valentino...
...horse trader, Louisiana's Dudley J. LeBlanc likes to say that the man who buys a horse has only himself to blame if the horse keels over and dies. Only six weeks ago, a group of Manhattan traders bought the odd-looking business animal that LeBlanc had raised on Hadacol, a patent medicine comparable to a vitamin-enriched Manhattan cocktail (TIME, Sept. 10). This week it looked as if the horse they bought was about dead...