Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jones thinks that his current campaign has been a success. Nearly 90% of the 75,000-odd who came to hear him, he estimates, favor his plan. Its specifications: present denominations would become autonomous branches represented in a national assembly; the national assembly, in turn, would send delegates to an international world assembly...
...such moments. No living American has fashioned so many rhymes that are familiar to so many people. Oscar Hammerstein (rhymes with fine) is one of the highest-paid men in show business (one estimate places his yearly income at $500,000).* He has written book and lyrics for 30-odd musicals, including Rose Marie, Sunny, Desert Song, Show Boat, New Moon, Carmen Jones, Oklahoma!, Carousel. He has written the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs (which has earned him a coveted AA rating by ASCAP), including such imperishables as Indian Love Call, Who, Ol' Man River, Only Make Believe...
...depleted band contingent led 300-odd students along a new line of march from the Yard, following Holyoke St., to Lowell House, back to Mount Auburn and down Plympton St., to before turning into the Eliot-Kirkland triangle and back to Holyoke...
From this array the Committee plans to select four leading possibilities and present them for the consideration of students and alumni. Then after sensing response over a five-month-odd period, thinking in terms of a final decision will begin and the Committee will slate another meeting...
...Wall Street's 1,200-odd market advisers had urged their clients five months ago to "buy Kaiser-Frazer stock and double your money," he would have been hooted at. On the New York Curb Exchange, where the stock steadily dropped from its $20.25 offering price to a low of 5 last May, it was considered shrewd to be "short" on Kaiser-Frazer, i.e., to bet it would go lower...