Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When little more than half the student body had voted over a period of two weeks, the joint executive board of the new and old Councils (numbering 20-odd Student Government officers) decided, in the cause of expediency, to count a simple majority of the votes cast sufficient to pass or reject the issue...
...student was taught something practical, along with studies and sports. The school was MEANT to be entirely different from Taft, Choate, Kent and all the rest, which tended to turn out "types." As for the "rich kids," let me tell you that only a mere handful of the 90-odd boys there during my three years paid the full $1,500 tuition then asked...
Nobody knew how many kits the 45-odd manufacturers in the industry had already sold. But Toni hair wave, the biggest, which Gillette Safety Razor Co. bought out, had alone sold 20,000,000, planned to spend $7,000,000 on ads to boost sales this year. Gillette hopes to lure women out of beauty shops just as successfully as it once lured men out of barber shops...
...deck, part of a collection of 175-odd packs buried in the bowels of Houghton Library, was donated to the university in 1925 by James E. Whitney '89, whose gift was combined with a similar one presented by Albert Thorndike...
When the current Harvard Varsity baseball team gets twenty (20) bits in an afternoon of competition, there must be something odd some-where Yesterday the strange element was the pitching of the University of Massachusetts at Fort Devens, which was just about sufficient to get the ball over the plate where it was clouted by alert home players...