Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oddest item of the evening was a sex pamphlet that sold...
...their intelligence, most Radcliffe girls can't tell the right side of the street from the wrong," he said. "They emerge on their bikes from the oddest places, and weave in and out crazily...
...London daily headlined the story: GHOST HUNTER SOUGHT. This was the newspaper's way of saying that Cambridge University's oddest fellowship was looking for a candidate again. Cambridge was willing to grant ?300 a year (for a maximum of two years) to a qualified and acceptable student who would investigate "some problem in psychical research...
...enough to baffle an electrocardiograph; a strange outbreak of heart and circulatory diseases seemed to be sweeping through the oddest levels of the St. Louis social structure. Police Commissioner John T. English, of East St. Louis, just across the Mississippi in Illinois, announced that he had a heart condition. Leo Dougherty, the Democratic boss of East St. Louis, checked into a Chicago hospital with "a coronary." Then Charles J. ("Kewpie") Rich, a big bookie, discovered that his ticker was acting...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...