Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Lords was packed with aroused peers as it had not been in years. Out of its 850-odd members, normally only a tenth or less attend.* But last week 258 showed up to listen, speak and be counted. In the debate, some of them displayed a lively concern over an issue deeper than steel or immediate programs. Old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood cried that the Parliament Bill was leading straight to an "oligarchy" of the cabinet. Sweeping the chamber with a steely glare, he said: "I shall be told, perhaps, that this does not matter because the cabinet...
From mid-June to mid-July the political solar plexus of the U.S. will be Philadelphia. There, in drafty, flag-draped Convention Hall, a thousand-odd sweating delegates from both major parties* will meet to choose their candidates for the presidency. Millions of U.S. citizens will follow every play in the press, over the radio and on their television screens. Few will understand exactly what is going on. What is the convention system and how does it operate...
...time, Ohio Wesleyan University turned out so many prominent churchmen that its 20,000-odd alumni (paraphrasing Ohio's claim as the "Mother of Presidents") proudly call their alma mater the "Mother of Bishops." Last week, for the first time in its 106 years, Ohio Wesleyan picked a layman president: U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Sherwood Flemming...
...first time a course in secretarial training, and another in publishing procedures, was tried within the confines of Radcliffe. The 100-odd girls enrolled in these subjects were uniformly disillusioned in the Harvard male, but this year they will get a chance to observe the wretch at close range...
Home to Mother. Dr. Wong is not physically impressive: he is under 5 ft. and weighs 90-odd pounds, and his homely face is scarred from an auto smashup 14 years ago. He has no political following: though a member of the Kuomintang, he is generally considered an independent. Most of his life has been passed in the relative obscurity of the Geological Institute and on university teaching staffs. He entered government service in 1935 at Chiang Kai-shek's repeated requests, rose rapidly to ministerial rank. Before becoming Premier his job was that of Minister of Economic Affairs...