Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm output had to sustain a nation of 137 million people, 86% of them peasants. Now, with a food output only some 30% larger than that of 1913, it has to sustain a peasantry of about the same size as in 1913, plus a new proletariat of 60-odd million city workers - half again more people, a third more food...
When the 480 odd dilettanie football players from the Yale Colleges end the Harvard Houses walked off the fields after yesterday's games, another high point had been reached for the best two intramural athletic systems in the nation...
...When an odd-looking man in a stocking cap and dark glasses stopped at Allen Stamm's home near Santa Fe, N. Mex., nine-year-old Linda Stamm went to the door to see what he wanted. He wanted to take her to her mother, who was at a bridge party. He also had a letter for Linda's parents. Linda obediently gave the letter to the maid and went off with the visitor...
...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
...Boston, the Rev. Bryan Green, canon of Birmingham Cathedral in England, was conducting a nine-day crusade that filled the 10,000-capacity Mechanics Hall and overflowed into two churches. Anglican Green (TIME, Dec. 13, 1948) was especially effective with young listeners: many of his 600-odd converts on a typical night were young people in tears...