Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story goes that when the architect showed Lowell the plans, the president drew windows where they looked nice and the result was many odd-shaped rooms...
...Atlantic and Pacific. But Sikorsky kept on experimenting with helicopters; in 1939 he built the VS-3OO, the first successful rotary-winged craft in the Western Hemisphere. During World War II, United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division made all the helicopters produced for the military; almost all the 100-odd ships now seeing service in Korea are Sikorsky-built...
This direct approach has always made sense to Carrol Shanks. To get himself through school, he worked as a pipe fitter's helper, as a laborer in a brickyard, once bummed his way halfway across the U.S. in a freight car, taking odd jobs. He got an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1925, was hired by Prudential to help reorganize the bankrupt railroads in which the company had investments. Shanks later took over the job of employee relations, did so well that he was made executive vice president. He was made president of Prudential...
Packing was no problem for Ridgway. He keeps a list of every article in all his 20-odd suitcases and trunks, as well as a master list of every item of clothing, furniture, etc., that he owns...
...solution is passable enough, the setting odd enough, the sleuth different enough, the condemned girl interesting enough for the play to have its points. But it swamps them in high-toned irrelevancy. It insists on becoming emotional, even spiritual. It prefers tear jerking to spine-tingling. It keeps slowing down to exhibit one of those suspicious half-wits that, by now, only another half-wit would suspect. As a whodunit, it suffers partly from not knowing its business, partly from not knowing its place...