Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stumbled across a volume of 14 Soler sonatas in a secondhand bookshop in California, immediately recognized them as "something different." He played the sonatas in recital, but suspected that they were heavily edited and set out (with the aid of a foundation grant) to track down the 50-odd additional Soler sonatas listed in musical dictionaries...
...second brother, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, had turned to sculpture and in only a dozen-odd works advanced to the front rank of early 20th century sculptors before his death in 1918, at 42, of blood poisoning contracted at the front. His crowning achievement is The Horse, combining in one sculptural metaphor both horse and machine...
...first time in four years, Montgomery Ward & Co. marched back into the nation's most select business club last week, proudly took its place among the 30-odd U.S. companies with sales of $1 billion annually. In 1956, announced Chairman John A. Barr, Ward's sales totaled $1,045,767,458, up 7.8% for the year, and earnings edged forward to $35,844,479. Later in the week Barr and his management team showed one of the reasons why. In Portsmouth, Ohio, they snipped the ribbons on Ward's first new retail store in the U.S. since...
...strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm does not prosper because the monuments are worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially odd, but the times make everyone seem to be living off the top of his head. Ludwig divides his time between beautiful Geneviève at the insane asylum and a levelheaded, strong-bodied girl acrobat who wants a man able to buy some groceries. In the end, he loses both...
...McClellan committee also found that the Teamsters had assigned some $60,000 to an "Unemployment Relief Fund" that did not exist in bank records. But Frank Brewster, who by week's end had admitted that as of Dec. 31, 1956 he owed his union $79,000 and some-odd dollars, was soon being questioned about some of the oddest of those dollars...