Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Count Volpi presented a check for $199,466.34 in payment of the odd dollars and cents of the account, so that the total of the debt would come to a round $2,407,000,000. The Count presented another check which was not expected. It was for $5,000,000-the first annual installment of Italy's payments. Mr. Mellon protested that the agreement calling for the payment is not valid until approved by Congress and the Italian Parliament, and that the payment is not due until next June in any event...
...archaic terms. . . . The explanation here is simpler. Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed...
...time seems to have come when the promise of publication can force odd follies from the lips of churchmen. Advising the male delegates at a diocesian conference of the Methodist Church to grow mustaches as the final gesture of a masculinity truncated by the fell strokes of female fashion, Bishop Collirs Denny remarked, "That's all the women have left us. They cut their hair and wear men's clothes, but they can't wear a mustache. It is your badge of masculinity...
Last week the Court Martial (TIME, Nov. 2, 9) trying Colonel William Mitchell for contempt of his superiors calculated to destroy discipline, got almost nowhere. Colonel Mitchell's counsel asked for 70 odd witnesses. According to Army rules both prosecution and defense have the privilege of examining witnesses before they take the stand. That took some time, and the Court was obliged to recess for several days...
...must be remembered that these statistics of daily sales on the Exchange, apart from being somewhat hastily compiled by newspapers from the stock tape, are defective for another reason. Only sales of 100 shares or multiples thereof are regularly put on the tape. Hence, sales of "odd lots"-that is, amounts of from 1 to 99 shares-are not included in ordinary calculations of sales on the Exchange. In recent years, individual sales in odd lots have equaled or outnumbered sales of 100 shares, while odd lot sales constitute an additional third to the published total of 100-share sales...