Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped from public view until last week, when the two Georges, Lee and Adams, returned to court to report dolefully to an unimpressed Magistrate Murtagh that the best they had been able to do was to persuade eleven gypsies to pay up $800 on 97 of the 2,000-odd outstanding tickets. This, explained their attorney, was because they didn't have "too much influence." The man who really had influence, he added, was Big Joe Uwanawich, "who is currently on tour rounding up gypsies...
Despite its occasional bumblings, however, the Council's 1955 record is at least even. Handicapped by its inability to retain one president for any considerable length of time, the group still managed to accomplish its usual odd jobs quietly, and usually efficiently. It succeeded in reorganizing the Class Day Committee, thereby unifying two previous committees and setting up a far more satisfactory election system. During the Spring, the Council took steps to avoid in the future the kind of financial fiasco it was to experience this fall: it initiated a capital found, hoping that Councils eventually will be able...
...that time the trustees had hoped to obtain the land at 45 Winthrop St., opposite the I.A.B., Ordway said. But the odd' shape of this site and its "short term availability" make the South St. lot "more desirable," he noted...
Karl Marx, who spent endless hours in the British Museum poring over the "blue books" of Parliamentary proceedings, could at least hope that his work would achieve some sort of permanence. There is no such consolation, for the 4,000-odd Harvard students who next week will attack another kind of blue book. Although these men will receive in return a postcard with a mark on it, in most cases they will never either see the exam booklets again or learn the instructor's reasons for the mark. The majority of the blue books, which represent a phenomenal number...
Since the arrival of jet engines, hangars all over the country have been full of odd model aircraft, designed to take advantage of the jet's enormous thrust. Most of them are freaks that will never fly. Last week designers were studying a novel wingless aircraft that is not in the same class. Its originator, Dr. Alexander Martin Lippisch, 61, a top German airplane designer in World War II, was largely responsible for the delta wing and Nazi Germany's ME-163 rocket plane. His new "aerodyne," however odd-looking, cannot be laughed off as a crazy inventor...