Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. In the first place the exciting and vivid recital, told with candor and humor, of a pilgrim in search of true wisdom, West and East-a recital punctuated with adventures as odd as any of Sinbad the Sailor's. In the second, an illuminating and informative exposition, both of the India that tourists never see, and the America of which many of our self-elected " leaders of thought" still deny the existence. Most interesting of all perhaps, the reactions of an Eastern mind to both Oriental and Occidental civilizations and ideals-set down without hasty intolerance or propagandizing...
Both Federal Judge Knox and the receiver, Col. Francis G. Caffey, are endeavoring to protect the 6,000 odd stockholders of the Willys-Overland Company, many of whom are small salary workers in Ohio...
...noteworthy fact that the 100 odd failures of supposed brokerage houses in New York occurred during the long rise in stock prices during 1921-22, while the recent insolvencies of prominent Curb houses have occurred during a temporary rally after a severe decline in stock prices this Spring. The latter were consequently due rather to the step taken by Curb authorities (under the vigorous leadership of John W. Curtis, President of the New York Curb Market Association) to investigate and check wrongful practices by its members, than merely to the change in security values...
Before us are two memorials to the vanished art. The Comic and Humorous Reciter, edited by Ernest Pertwee and published by Routledge, of London, and an American product, My Recitations, selected by Cora Urquhart Potter, published by Lippincott. Dipping into them revives odd memories ? lambrequins and dadoes ? gilded rolling-pins, dudes, croquet, the high-wheel bicycle, the game of Boston ? a departed...
...seventy-odd amendments to the Constitution offered at the last session of Congress had been adopted, there might be many new jobs for teachers in California and other states...