Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odd years, Mother Agatha has let her blessings fall on thousands all over the U.S. For most of them it has been a rare experience, for the skins of Mother Agatha's children are red or black. The university she runs is the only Catholic university for Negroes in the U.S. She is also director of 75 grammar and high schools-all for Negroes or Indians...
...John Reeves Ellerman might be mistaken for a wealthy dilettante. He acts in little plays with his own theater company, in his own private theater. He is fond of odd pets, which have included several porcupines and an elephant named Charlie. He has his own private orchestra, which plays for his rare but lavish parties. But young (38) Sir John is no lighthearted dabbler; he is deadly serious about three things...
...thought there was nothing odd about the fact that he knew several of the people accused by Elizabeth Bentley: George Silverman (a friend of his Harvard days), Victor Perlo, Harry White, Robert Talbot Miller III. Some were economists and he knew "literally hundreds of economists throughout the Government." One friend of Currie's who was no economist was Anatoli Gromov, onetime secretary of the Russian embassy. Miss Bentley testified last week that on one occasion Gromov had given her $2,000 for her information. Currie readily admitted knowing Gromov. "I met him at social occasions and was entertained...
...motor trip across Canada is an endurance test. Only 1,945 out of 4,300-odd miles are hard-surfaced. In winter snow blocks the Rockies' passes, shuts off even the most adventuresome motorists. Not until 1943, when the last link was finished in Ontario, was there even a makeshift road across the Dominion. Even then, it was three years before any motorist made the trip from sea to sea-twelve days of bumps, jolts and dust...
...left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors or the insubordination among the musicians had made life unbearable. The last conductor to get "the Seattle treatment," ruddy-faced Carl Bricken, 49, survived a petition signed by 50-odd members of the orchestra asking that he be sacked, but he finally quit on his own last January...