Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems of many overseas readers wanting to subscribe to TIME have been equally complicated. In some instances, the subscriber has had to go to his bank and stand in line for a magazine application subscription form of some 100-odd questions, in sextuplicate. Having filled it out, he then had to take it to the exchange control authorities who might take from a week to six months to affirm or deny it. If his request were granted, he again had to go to his bank for a dollar draft to send to us. To overcome this delay, 23 banks...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, arriving in Manhattan for yet another vacation, were met by 50-odd reporters and cameramen, but refused to be stampeded. Said the Duke: the wedding-invitation thing was "purely personal and a family matter." The Duchess-in navy blue coachman suit with a compromise-length coat, a blue-and-brown turban, beige gloves, a mink fur piece, a pearl necklace -answered the other big question quite frankly. She thought that "people should wear skirts at the length most becoming...
...Texans had a state religion, it would probably be Baptist. Of Texas' 11,000-odd churches, 3,300 are Baptist (total membership: nearly a million). In Amarillo last week, at the state's Baptist General Convention, Executive Secretary Howard Williams reminded his brethren of the obligations that go with power. Said he: "Texas Baptists have grown to a mighty people. We must not be unmindful of the tremendous responsibility which goes with such strength. More than any other group of Christians, the general conditions in Texas, both good and evil, can be laid at the door...
Twelve grinding weeks of practice, and eight full-scale games had enough effect on the 40-odd footballers yesterday afternoon for Coach Dick Harlow to remark, as he trudged in off the flood-lit field beside the Stadium, that his boys "looked more like a football team this afternoon than they had all season...
...about 15%, usually heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take the Mississippi Valley, where the heaviest concentration of gunners (almost half the nation's 2,000,000-odd duck hunters) wait for them. The heaviest duck traffic (33%) is found on the central flyway-over the Dakotas and Oklahoma to Texas...