Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have reckoned that of the 5000 odd undergraduates, some 4200 cat in the Dining Halls. Dedducting 300, who, because of illness or cowardice, do not appear, I feel that 3900 daily diners is a fairly accurate estimate. Feeding this multitude on the College's meager meat supply has resulted in a meatless catastrophe, and yet, in the confines of the University itself, there is a solution. I have evolved a plan whereby all undergraduates and a part of the physically handicapped people of Greater Boston can be generously...
Lyons opened the conference by telling the 50-odd people in the room, "If you are all interested in newspaper writing, it is perhaps just as well there aren't more of you here. Because of the number of metropolitan dailies that have folded this year, jobs are extremely scarce," he claimed...
...odd years, Jeanne de Valois was never canonized. Her "process," begun in 1775, was delayed first by unusual strictness on the part of the Congregation of Rites, then by the French Revolution (no French bishop dared offend Napoleon by pushing the sainthood of a member of the old regime). In 1905, when the process was finally resumed, authorities insisted that at least one more miracle would be necessary. In 1932 occurred what was regarded as an authentic miracle: French Nun Marta Fourrier, apparently on the verge of death from a duodenal ulcer, was suddenly cured when someone at her bedside...
Massachusetts' three odd thousand compose nearly one third of the entire student body and the Empire State accounts for a quarter. The midwest sends definitely fewer students. It makes up little more than one tenth of the University population...
...first poets to devise odd typographical settings for his works, often putting one word on a line. Williams believes in clear language, strong images, and complete freedom in the choice of subject matter...