Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choking Sensation. The first to discover that the smog had assumed peculiar qualities was a man walking home late at night. He was seized with a paroxysm of choking. But he had little time to reflect on the fact that the fog had assumed an odd, penetrating odor. He sat down on the curb, toppled over and died...
...These odd creatures, reprinted from the Nation, constitute an ichthyological view of the presidential campaign. They were sketched by Oscar Berger, and are classified below by the Nation's Associate Editor Robert Bendiner...
...Thirty-seven ex-New Dealers, denouncing Wallace's Progressive Party as "a corruption of American liberalism," announced their support of Truman. In print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took...
Another system would require a plane of odd design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...
More than 750 Radcliffe students have paid up an average of $7.25 apiece to date, Miss Braverman calculates. The 100-odd girls still unassesed are expected to turn in their money at the dean's office sometime this week. Final tallies are expected...