Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland's local radio stations (for the 31 forum programs they sent out over their transmitters); to the U.S. State Department (for the thousands of words it transmitted daily to listeners overseas in English and other languages); to all the members of the Cleveland press and the 100-odd reporters and photographers from U.S. and foreign newspapers, news services and magazines who covered the three-day Institute...
London is what Norman Collins' book is really about. Percy and his blonde are simply two of the dozen-odd principal characters used by Author Collins as a means of mapping London-south from Camden Town, north from Wapping. Absent from his map is the London that is most familiar to most tourists-the picture-postcard world in the shadow of Big Ben. Omnipresent are the vast areas few tourists ever see, and ways of life that few would associate with England...
University AVC members last night elected 15 delegates to carry the chapter's 700-odd votes at the Massachusetts state convention of the organization this weekend at the Parker House...
...members of the U.S. political Left were impressed by the gleaming pink façade of Henry Wallace's hybrid Progressive Citizens of America (TIME, Jan. 6). In Washington last week 150-odd intellectuals, labor leaders and New Deal disciples got together to form a new organization of their own. They had been called together by the Union for Democratic Action, a militant pressure group of ardent "liberals...
When they weren't building, plastering or painting, the Americans cycled around the countryside, doing odd jobs wherever they stopped. In Paris 30 hostelers were invited to Schiaparelli's for tea, showed up unabashed in seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...