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Word: oddly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equipment for all, The one exception is the new gymnasium. Throughout the current year there has been talk of the difficulty of raising sufficient funds for its completion, and at present the plan is to leave the construction of the top story until the three hundred and seventy odd thousand dollars necessary may be obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. SURPLUS | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

...marathon, is to be started. Promptly at 3 o'clock two Harvard students are to take their places in the windows of the Music Box, Cambridge's tiny shop on Holyoke Street, and there begin to listen without once stopping, to all and any one of the some 5000 odd records which the Music Box has in store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Banner Waved in Holyoke Street to Start Students' Phonograph Listening Marathon--Helen Kane May Officiate | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...teacher opened a public school, and I transferred to it. I sat between a Moro kid, a Chinese, and two Mestizos, and I joined heartily in "My countree 'tis off dee" every time a visitor showed up. What a relief it was to go to Baguio with twenty odd other American boys, and be taught by a small group of the finest men and instructors I have ever had-all hand picked by Bishop Brent. The mountain climate, excellent care and discipline, and the best of instruction make me recall my Baguio days as the happiest of my boyhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...great mass of his public cherishes him for quite another reason: dean of mystery and detective fiction, he has written 400-odd short stories, and, at the last census, 140 full-length yarns. One in every four books sold in England is by Wallace, and the tremendous sale in Germany, the U. S., Australia and South Africa, brings his yearly total to 5,000,000 copies. His U. S. publishers are boasting "a Wallace per month" for the next twelve months, and his German Verlag distributes a catalog two-thirds of which concerns Wallace Detektiv-Romane and Theaterstücken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Mass | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...odd moments he has dictated "a sort of a kind of an"* autobiography, lavish with anecdotes of "people," ranging from his fishmonger foster-father to William Jennings Bryan, his son's godfather. Written objectively, the effect is as though he were telling of somebody else. Written carelessly in helter-skelter, unkempt style, People might well have been tossed into a dictaphone between tea and dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Mass | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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