Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Provost Buck will address 900-odd Radcliffe students and faculty members this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Garden Street Congregational Church in the first Honors Day ceremonies in Annex history. He will speak on "The Quality of Scholarship...
...fact, if you are an American college graduate and your last name begins with the letters "Fa" (Farley, Farmer, etc.), you have probably already received the questionnaire we sent you. For, in order to do the survey accurately we asked the presidents of the 1,200-odd U.S. colleges and universities to let us have the names and addresses of their "Fa" graduates (this sample proved to be representative in TIME'S earlier study of college graduates...
...telescope frame progressed faster, but both it and the mirror were still unfinished when Pearl Harbor Day scattered the astronomers to those odd, essential posts that scientists fill in wartime. Hubble tried to get back his old job in the infantry, but was made Chief Ballistician at Aberdeen Proving Ground...
Deflater. The Federal Reserve Board took another cautious step to curb inflation. It raised reserve requirements (i.e., the portion of demand deposits which cannot be used for loans) in New York and Chicago commercial banks from 20% to 22% beginning Feb. 27. In effect, an additional $500-odd million will be put into cold storage, thus shrinking credit. FRB is expected to raise reserve requirements gradually in the two big money centers to the present legal limit...
...Only 120-odd returnees, including 95 veterans and some readmitted men, signed up on Friday, while over 300 seniors completed their degree requirements last term and are expected to receive their diplomas after a corporation meeting in March...