Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the arrival of TIME and the repairman article came a broken faucet in the bathroom and an odd noise in the transmission of the car. The TV set (last week's trouble: condenser) now needs a new picture tube. At times like this I wonder if Grandma's day wasn't better. At least the only thing that broke down then was Grandma...
Schlaeppi turned in by far his most impressive showing of the season, despite a work schedule which allows him to grab only short practices at odd hours during the week...
...from speeding up, in fact, Vanguard lagged behind its original plan for a late-1957 launching of a 20-odd-lb. satellite (less than one-eighth as heavy as Russia's claim for Sputnik). The stretched-out schedule calls for launching smaller test satellites late this year, orbiting the first 21½-lb. ball next spring. The satellites themselves are ready to soar, reports Vanguard's softspoken, pipe-puffing Director John P. Hagen. But the launching vehicle is still undergoing tests. Its first stage, an adaptation of the Navy's Viking, has to work perfectly...
...invention. While amusing his children building sand castles on the beach at East Hampton, he conceived the idea of sculpting in damp sand and casting directly in concrete. A certain amount of sand sticks to Nivola's concrete casts, providing color and texture plus an odd feeling that the bas-relief, once erected, may slide away like sand at any moment...
There is also an unusually free mingling of the sexes at Marlboro. Parietal rules are very liberal, 11 p.m. on week-nights and later on the weekends, and the favorite gathering place for students during odd hours is the living room of the girls' dormitory...