Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it can only bargain for shippers in its own area-that the I.L.A. be given a master contract covering all Atlantic and Gulf ports. Beyond that, the I.L.A. and the shippers are still far apart in negotiations over wages, length of contract, etc. Nonetheless, this week some 250-odd ships that had been immobilized by the costly ($20 million a day) dock strike were being loaded and readied to put to sea again...
...paint the mural, involving a total of 120-odd figures, Johns Hopkins commissioned Painter Leon Kroll, 71, famed as "dean of U.S. nude-painters," who labored 2½ years on the task. Unquestioned hit of the series, and for Muralist Kroll ("I like women better than men") a labor of love, are the Baltimore belles. To record them, Kroll started with nude models (see cut), then borrowed or bought authentic turn-of-the-century gowns, used photographs and Baltimorites' recollections to recapture the exact features and coloring of the originals...
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. chose cancer of the cervix to study, picked some odd particles called adenoviruses* to attack the tumors. Last week the N.I.H...
Another source of trouble in planning for Harvard's growth, he added, has been the odd-shaped pieces of property which private individuals have refused to sell. One individual is reported to have retained the land behind Paine Hall only because he was kicked by President Lowell's horse...
First, we examined records of the games against Tufts, Cornell, Columbia, and Dartmouth. There were two symmetrical trends: 1.) Harvard has won every alternate and even game, and has lost every odd game; 2) the Crimson has won exactly half of the home games and half of the away games. After projecting these trends as methods of analysis onto the remaining schedule of four games, we quickly saw two possibilities. By the first, Harvard must win the Princeton and Yale games, the sixth and eighth, and lose those against Penn and Brown. By the second, the Crimson must...