Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know that there was a strange land across the seas where they spoke some sort of English in rather an odd accent. I knew that the inhabitants of this vague country performed marriages on flagpoles. But apart from that you did not count. England was the country that all we Europeans loved and admired. We clothed our bodies in British clothes and fed our minds with the words of British intellectuals. It was smart to read British newspapers, and we sincerely enjoyed such nice magazines as Nash's and the Strand. If we did see some American newspapers...
...dodged the highway traffic, threw back his shoulders and launched into what newsmen had dubbed The Speech. He could time The Speech for anywhere from 18 to 50 minutes, depending on the size and estimated temper of his audiences. Sometimes a few score, sometimes a hundred-odd men, women & children stood staring and listening. The horns of a public-address system, mounted on a sedan, lifted the Senator's flat Ohio voice above the din of Ohio's Main Streets...
...There are nine orders of men in the Church of England. Dom Gregory's Benedictines, all bearing the Benedictine title of Dom, from Dominus (master), number 30-odd members in Britain...
University officials are always appealing for unrestricted gifts to Harvard, but each year the University is given an odd not of donations that must disturb the auditors...
...Odd contributors also appear on the University books. The Elks gave Harvard $250 scholarships; the Massasolt Greyhound Association gave the Department of Legal Medicine $1,000; and donations also came from the Champion Spark Plug Company, Swift and Company, National Biscuit Company, and Gillette Safety Razor Company...