Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the striking discovery that there are things that money won't buy. The discovery came with the death of his brother Nathan. Nathan was a year younger than Maurice. As boys in Poland, they had slept in the same bed. They had emigrated to the U.S. 40-odd years ago. They sold newspapers together. When they had saved up a few hundred dollars, they opened a small dry-goods store together. They prospered and bought more stores...
Down the road at Deerpark, Pat Morrissey was acting a bit odd that day himself. "When I saw the hunt coming," says he, "I called my neighbors. They grabbed the nearest implements they could get and lined the gate with me. If the Blazers try to hunt our lands we'll use force if necessary to stop them." At Moorpark Cross, other farmers patrolled the covert with rakes, and every day still others joined the boycott against the Blazers...
...favor of ?200,000 and ?250,000 productions. And some of his (and the world's) most talented moviemakers, feeling the cold hands of businessmen curbing their artistic impulses, had deserted him for Sir Alexander Korda (TIME, Nov. 17), who is concentrating on prestige films. Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) and Powell & Pressburger (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) had already gone. British critics had begun to note the deterioration in Rank films; recent films, said the Sunday Times, ranged from "mediocre to ghastly...
Last week, after drilling for 18 days through 140-odd feet of hard rock, the engineers hit water. Salisbury, announced the mayor proudly, was now assured of at least 403,200 gallons a week...
...polling the entire Alumni body with reminders of impracticality and expense. As an impartial voice the Alumni Bulletin deserves the Senator's attention. The Bulletin backs the poll, pointing out that the estimated $5000 cost of printing and mailing a ballot with explanatory covering matter to 100,000-odd Alumni seems small in terms of the certain import of the results...