Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh Pasture. Last week, 1,000-odd people in dust-covered cars drove up a dirt road in Lincoln Forest for the annual meeting at Nogal Mesa. Four times a day they filled the rough pine tabernacle (which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...
...graduate of the University of Oklahoma (she worked her way through with odd secretarial jobs) Miss Roberts put in a year and a half as a social worker with the New Deal's Federal Emergency Relief Administration, learned stenotyping at night school, and went to work as a secretary for Oklahoma City's Chamber of Commerce. There her quick mind and talent for getting along with people were spotted by Braniff Airways Vice President O. M. Mosier. When he went to American Airlines as a vice president, he took Carlene with...
Summer has been slower than usual this year at the Office of Student Employment in Weld Hall. Requests for baby-sitters range from none to three a day, and odd jobs are scarce...
Summer students have gobbled up the odd jobs, whereas regular College students have seized most of the openings listed in the book labeled: "Full-time and Regular Part-time--Catch As Catch Can." The office has assigned drivers to the Checker Cab Company, bartenders to the Hotel Commander, and a man "to sleep on a boat...
...ready to go to sea in earnest. He knew the "riggin' and runnin' gear" as well as the alphabet, but life on a whaler held odd surprises for him. The oddest: having to douse his clothes in urine, the standard detergent aboard the oily whalers, before washing them in sea water...