Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparently unknown in the U.S., where from time to time judges have died in mid-trial and left cases in shambles. In a famous 1944 sedition trial of pro-Nazi sympathizers, for example, the chief judge died after six months' testimony, a mistrial was declared, and the 30-odd defendants were never retried...
...Looming above him was a young man who stood six-foot-seven and was wearing kilts. He said he wanted a job, and Editor Frank Crowninshield, delighted to have such a piece of bric-a-brac on the premises, stowed him in an office occupied by two other odd objects-Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley...
...building. He uses the work of his own firm, The Architects' Collaborative, to illustrate the proposal. Thompson defines TAC's team style (as seen in the Geological Labs on Oxford St.) as "design for other humans than ourselves"--the opposite of "egotism and upstage-itis." His humanism has an odd ring, but the collaborative approach is one way of avoiding major blunders by individual architects...
...things clear about PPLO is that they have been fouling up microbiologists' experiments for years. They sneak in and contaminate cultures of both viruses and tissues, where they confuse investigators with their odd patterns of growth. Confusion between viruses and PPLO, suggests Dr. Jørgen Fogh of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, may explain why many researchers, who have suspected viruses of causing some forms of human cancer, have assumed that the mysterious particles sometimes found in cancer cells were viruses when actually they were PPLO...
...insurance companies, mutual funds and pension funds - were also active, as evidenced by the great blocks of stock that changed hands: 17,200 shares of Chrysler; 53,000 shares of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, 80,000 shares of Sperry Rand. But the little man played a little role. Trading in odd lots of fewer than 100 shares accounted for only 7% of the volume...