Word: odder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much like the airplanes of late World War II. Behind these in the development series stand strange-looking craft like the Northrop Flying Wing and the six-jet Boeing B-47, neither yet ready for service. Even farther away from military use are odder airplanes, such as the model 7002 Consolidated-Vultee Delta wing, which looks like a big bomber's tail with the rest of the bomber missing (see cut). So far, the Delta wing has had only its test flights...
...Bird. But a thrush knew. "No sooner was the coffin grounded, than he was up on the brim of Edna's hat, his beak an inch from a purple cherry. . . ." For if Edna was odd, her hat was odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman...
There is an outside chance that the plot will work. Odder things have happened in odd and amiable San Francisco...
King's Medalist. By any U.S. standard, Poet Wystan (rhymes with piston) Hugh Auden is an odd fish. To such plain U.S. readers as may be exposed to it, most of his poetry seems still odder. Nevertheless, at 37, Auden is generally rated the most influential poet of his generation. For the Time Being, his twelfth book, is likely to be the year's most discussed book of poetry...
Holding down one of the odder jobs around the University, Freshman Peter Duble will send his battling ten and elever year old team into its final game today in an attempt to hang up an undefeated season. The battle royal will take place when Duble's club, the Massasoits, meets their arch rivals, the Mohawks, in the season's climax game...