Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into New Jersey and Connecticut), 29.5% of the population is Roman Catholic, 18% Jewish and 15.9% Protestant; 2.2% is listed as "other," and 34.4% is unaffiliated. More than 55% of the city's estimated 960,000 Protestant church members are nonwhite. Among the nonwhites, the council, in an odd ethnological stance, listed 440,000 Negroes and almost 90,000 Puerto Ricans...
...father's 1,280-acre wheat farm near Walla Walla, Wash., just eight years after a genial Quaker named Charles A. Coffin merged two electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away by the Edison General Electric Appliance Co. Edison was a subsidiary of General Electric, then under its third president, brilliant...
Before the end of this month, the 150-odd U.S. Roman Catholics living in Moscow will be able to go to confession regularly again for the first time in three years...
...line had 600 no-shows in one city. This left space aplenty for stand-by passengers, who had the patience and courage to wait at drafty airports for any space available. Actually, most travelers got where they wanted to go, but many had to wind around circuitous routes on odd carriers, arrived frazzled...
Iviglia painstakingly built up a case against famed Bern Dealer Henry Werro, 67-year-old former president of the Swiss Violin Dealers Association. Werro hastily repurchased five violins and a cello from angry customers for a total of about $60,000 before he was brought to trial on 20-odd charges of forgery of names and labels. The top violin traders in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York, who have for years passed on the authenticity of old violins, almost unanimously supported Werro. Seventy-year-old Albert Phillips-Hill of London's sacrosanct W.E. Hill & Sons, and himself known...