Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been for the 15-odd sons of his father, who lived a life of medieval irresponsibility in a crumbling palace just down the road from his own, life might have been close to perfect. But there the brothers were-"those royal drones," as Yadavindra sometimes called them...
Instead, he and his planners reckoned that the death of American would benefit the company's two other magazines−which are in even worse financial trouble. "The odd thing," said Smith, "is that the least loser turned out to be the best one to pick to put out of business." Collier's (circ. 3,772,079) lost $7.5 million in 1953, $4.5 million in 1954 and $1.5 million last year, and Smith expects losses to be no lower in 1956. Woman's Home Companion (circ. 4,117,734), which was making a profit until...
...cave was man's first natural home: some atomic-age pundits fear that it may also be his last. Oddly, however, though man has probed earth's atmosphere, mapped its surface, scaled its highest peaks and scraped its ocean bottoms, he has largely neglected the myriad subterranean realms. In alpine cliché, a mountain is climbed "because it is there." The spelunker's incentive is that a cave is never even "there" until it is found and its depths are plumbed and proved. Mountaineering has its classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves...
...point of San Juan Week was Sunday, feast of San Juan. After a Pontifical High Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, a 5,000-strong procession made for the Chicago Avenue Armory and an afternoon and evening of island-style fun and games. Armour & Co. provided 500-odd pigs and the prize for reaching the top of a well-greased pole was a color television...
Windbag Who Babbles. There is something odd about the man, Fletcher, a windbag who babbles about irrigating the Karroo with atomic power and establishing a world government on the lines of South Africa's present Nationalist regime. The man's wife is silent and bitter. But the pair beg the students to stay with them for a free holiday. Thus the boys come to sense the fear that lies under Fletcher's racial brag. The house is subtly menaced by a big old illiterate Kaffir, Joseph, who just hangs about. Man and wife are desperately afraid...