Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern Ontario gold mine. They told him some very unkind things about Canada, handed him propaganda leaflets, tried to talk him into giving up, going back to Russia. The same thing happened, on the same trip, to Joe Trhlen, John Sanajko, Myroslaw Blauk, 50-odd other D.P.s. Said Mike Moskal: "Was no good. Didn't like...
...Coogan had sulked in seclusion in a hotel suite for 32 years. She walked out of Whitehall in 1910 (in a huff, according to Society legend, after giving a big party which Society boycotted), never returned, refused to sell the place, just let it stand there rotting for 30-odd years...
...Odd Man Out (British). Carol Reed's film bogged down in allegory, but its first half was excellent and its portrait of a night city was superb (TIME, March...
...This odd legal vacuum, caused by science, affects much more than the squabbles of dry-land farmers. The General Electric Co., which developed scientific rainmaking, has stopped all outdoor experimenting. G.E. lawyers get the horrors when they think of what might happen to the company if one of its planes made a dry-ice-sprinkling flight just before a cloudburst. They might be drowned in damage suits for years. Even the Army & Navy have been jumpy since they were accused of "meddling" with dry ice and herding a hurricane toward Georgia (TIME...
Even if the association can impose a code of fair practices on the rest of New York City's 4,000-odd repairmen, there are still 91 other U.S. cities of more than 100,000, where the public is probably getting the same sort of "repair service" that Radio Daily found in Manhattan...