Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polite society it is considered vulgar for one to make a display of his wealth or education. In the practical affairs of life, when a man uses an odd or unusual word to convey a meaning that could have been as easily and as quickly conveyed by a more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein...
...even, I hope, by the who who did it, when he reflects that his deed wronged his fellow students who had the same right to the use of this article that he had, and wronged the Library by permanently destroying the value of an expensive reference work. Copies of odd volumes, still less of stray pages, of the Britannica are not to be procured from the publishers, and cannot be picked up at the booksellers. To buy a new set, to reprint the missing pages, or even to mend the old pages if they should be returned and to rebind...
...deriders of Rotary will learn better very soon now. As Rotarian Gardner Mack wrote only this month in the Rotarian, Rotary has "turned the corner." From a little lunch group brought together by a lonely Chicago lawyer, it has become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and claiming approximately 130,000 members!" It is outgrowing what Rotarian William Allen White calls its "boy complex," its "garish ex-ternals," its "supersentimentalism and noisy infanticism." It is not unembarrassed by members who say Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine...
...managed to finish his education at Princeton. The next few years he served as night clerk in a Florida hotel, acted in a Denver stock company, reported for newspapers, punched cows, mastered the traveling man's profession. He sailed to England on a cattleship, batting around at many an odd job and alwayssto this he attributes his success?always keeping "well-dressed and well-groomed." Satisfied finally that he had "seen life," he settled in Chicago, married,' began practising...
...first report of the Committee on Relations with the Alumni shows that a consistent effort has been made to keep the forty-thousand odd graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...