Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graves with huge mechanical diggers that can scoop out a regulation 5-by-3-by-8-ft. hole in eight minutes. One man has the sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington's population is growing at the rate of 75 funerals a week...
...World War I. Twenty-two bronzes were made of each figure, but with such exquisite care that the originals survived unharmed. Such studies as Dancer Putting on Her Stocking (see cut), only 18 inches high, show what could have been lost. Working freely and using broken paintbrush handles and odd bits of wire for stiffening, the artist molded a quick study of a dancer observed at a moment where awkwardness and beauty balance. In its very casualness it is as close as the viewer can come to Degas' actual moment of creation. As such, it is well worth...
...Actually, thanks to President Funston and the vigorous campaigning of brokerage houses that conduct stock-market classes all over the U.S., the small investor is an increasingly well-informed buyer. He has done about 19% of all the buying and selling in recent years, as judged by trading in odd lots (less than 100 shares...
...live in Europe for the rest of his life. Escaped from his Puritan cage, Santayana had released himself not only for flitting from London to Paris to Florence to Venice to Rome but for strenuous mental flights in the bulk of his 30-odd works. The delight of the letters is that Santayana is always ready to stray off the course of his philosophic thought into detours of personalities and opinions. Some pithy detours: ¶"Germans as far as I know have no capacity for being bored. Else I think the race would have become extinct long ago through self...
Ingredients of the Old School Rivalry, although little more than intermural nose-pulling, have always been the high jinks among Ivy League newspapers. With unrhythmic regularity the dailies have ground out odd-man assortments of parodies and away-from-home editions. We have exchanged good-natured tweaks with Princeton, for example, and both staffs parted in light spirits, printed conflicting stories of the incidents, and laughed it over. The Yale Daily News is another story...