Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were), Mossadeq retired to his farm holdings in Ahmabad, west of Teheran, stayed out of politics for 13 years. His health grew worse. In 1930 he went to Berlin for medical treatment, also consulted a psychiatrist about his worsening nervous condition. The psychiatrist was greatly interested in this odd case, but Mossadeq refused to continue seeing...
...chapel, get its design and construction approved and into the works. Then he settled down to learning the job and writing the rules as he went along. Six hours a day for eight months he walked through offices, factories and warehouses, personally meeting 12,000-odd employees. For two hours more each day, he let it be known, he would be in his office for counseling. Only a few came at first, but gradually counseling work increased. Before the end of his first year, he had 475 visits from employees in search of help. Management officials, employees and Pastor Peace...
...take the test. Then it will be up to local draft boards to decide which ones are to continue their education. But from Major General Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, came one note of caution: no longer could students expect that 70% of the nation's million-odd draft eligibles now in college will be deferred. The new estimate: about...
...massive telescopic camera specially designed for photographing meteors was shipped last week to Harvard's meteor station near Las Cruces, N.Mex. Weighing 5,000 Ibs. and mounted on an odd, horseshoe yoke, it looks like nothing else on earth. The outer lens, 18 in. in diameter, is as convex as a fishbowl. Inside are other lenses, one of them also bowl-shaped, and a 23-in. concave mirror. The film is placed between the lenses and sucked by a vacuum against the curved surface...
...certain that "the balancing fact" is tacked on to "the misleading assertion," the Monitor prints far more stories from its 81 correspondents and its 2,000-odd special contributors than it does from its three wire services - A.P., U.P. and Reuters. "We think this [balancing fact] is more important than hasty headlines. So we do not hesitate to hold up a misleading story until we can link with it the necessary fact. Our own correspondents are instructed to do this before they file the story in the first place ... "Rightly carried out, this [interpretive] function need entail no more editorializing...