Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eurich and Wilson set up, revised, and tried out innumerable questions with the help of 30-odd researchers, several professors of arts and social sciences, and hundreds of submissive students. The team emerged from all this toil, sweat and tedium in May 1934 with a quiz they liked. The scholarly American Council on Education also liked...
Lieut. Colonel M.P.A. den Ouden, 40, paratrooper and veteran of service in Indonesia, was among the first to volunteer when The Netherlands decided to send a force to Korea. At the head of 600-odd Dutch soldiers, he arrived in the battle theater last November...
...network TV shows that originate in Chicago and New York (or on film in Hollywood) are usually star-studded and popular. But there are 90-odd stations in big & little U.S. cities which must fill up the rest of their TV time with local shows, locally produced...
...residential street in the Midwestern town of Cedarsville, workmen were razing the fine old Johnston residence. At an upper window of his own house next door, Ralph Kempner watched the daily progress of destruction from a wheelchair, and backtracked in memory over the 70-odd years of his life. Cedarsville folk naturally wondered what old Kempner was thinking about, because he had always been such a cold, silent fish...
Advocates of extreme ideas, however unpopular, have not been denied a hearing at this University. But this is precisely why the nine-hundred-odd persons who filled New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon to hear Paul Robeson were puzzled when Robeson did not appear. Perhaps they had not all come to hear and weigh carefully the extreme views Mr. Robeson would doubtless have expressed. But they were there none the less, and the Young Progressives must be chided gently for failing to produce their man. Since they had similar ill-luck with William E. Du Bois on Monday night, even their...