Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variety has been the keynote throughout fifty-odd years of Annex sports. Tennis, basketball, and swimming are the old standbys. Field hockey and lacrosse have had their ups and downs. Tumbling, a grand old favorite, made its return as a regularly-scheduled activity three years...
...finish his College work. Meanwhile, he started to help out in the old News Office. When he finally got his degree in 1935, he stayed on there, and for the next six years worked on the far-reaching and complicated business of Harvard publicity. Simultaneously, he filled such odd jobs as correspondent for the Boston Transcript until its demise in 1941, and even took pictures for the Alumni Bulletin. (Like many good reporters, Monro can juggle a Speed-Graphic with one hand and take notes with the other...
Bernard Shaw finished editing and returned a collection of 100-odd Shaw sayings to Cyril Clemens, a temerarious admirer from Kirkwood, Mo. Shaw denied some of the items, okayed others, rewrote a few more. Two he marked "untrue, but good enough to pass." Approved as straight Shaw: "I have solved practically all the pressing questions of our time, but they keep on being propounded as insoluble, just as if I never existed...
...went to work with a will, learned the trade of the artist-engraver, bullied his master into revealing a few closely guarded technical tricks by threatening to murder him. Soon he was turning out the first of the 1,300-odd plates which by mid-18th Century had made him famous...
Soviet encouragement of ham activity seems odd, but the Red bosses have undoubtedly discovered (as did the U.S. during the war) that hams are a ready-made pool of communications experts whose services are invaluable...