Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before you could repeat that mouthful of title, the group was nicknamed "The Harvard Annex," and the name has stuck fast for 70 years. During that span, Radcliffe has had three presidents, a dozen-odd deans, and a faculty made up either wholly or mostly of Harvard instructors...
...graduated too. This is indeed a change from the days when those in the Annex were considered part of the local scenery, appearing in time for football games, and disappearing after the Yard Concerts--a group that spent its days taking notes and its nights playing bridge, using odd moments to snare men and write papers. Where this all led to nobody knew, or seemed to care--gone by the end of May, Radcliffe was always back in September and the faces seemed pretty much the same. Now it turns out that some graduate in the spring, and the event...
Paragraph 5: The first statement was based on the opinions of such men as Provost Furniss, Professor of Philosophy Paul Weiss, Robert S. Cohen, and in fact most of the 30-odd men with whom the author spoke at Yale. Moreover, the FBI documents made public at the Judith Coplon trial last week prove that the FBI does use a large number of "confidential informants...
...Catholic Church, the Czech Communist government last week recruited 118 pliable Catholics, including two monsignors and a sprinkling of priests, to form an "anticapitalist" Catholic Action Organization. At the same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
There was always something odd about Edward John Burra. His classmates laughed when they caught him daubing red paint on the noses of classical plaster casts at art school, but they watched in awed wonder when he took to drinking champagne out of ashtrays and washing his face in film developer. When Burra's health forced him to quit school and moderate his prankish ways, he retired to his parents' house in Rye, on England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place...