Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professional's market, with pension funds, mutuals, and merger-bent corporations among the big buyers. Small investors have become a dwindling factor. So far this year, odd-lot trading (blocks of less than 100 shares) has dropped to the lowest percentage of total volume-12.3%-since brokers began keeping track...
Though he worked at a number of odd jobs (including chauffering President Conant) and played baseball, his marks began to inch higher. He made Phi Beta Kappa, got a magna on his Economics thesis and won a Fulbright...
...resolution in the face of death. But instead--an English classroom, a hot African town, and the relative pronouns 'who' and 'whom'" he wrote in the Voulnteer. A rather different point of view from The Barrios of Manta, but then, the Peace Corps is 10,000 individuals in 40-odd countries, and we can afford a little diversity in what it tells us about ourselves and the societies we set out to help...
...This is the day of wrath. The thousand-odd dead at Pearl Harbor that first day were not merely the victims of Japanese treachery. They were the victims also of a weak and faltering America that had lost its way and failed the world in leadership. We have come to the end of as pusillanimous an epoch as there ever was in the history of a great people. There was no dignity in these years, and nothing of fate that we did not bring upon ourselves. It is also the day of hope. [For] we know, that however we have...
...years as Dean of the College he has been more accessible than most professors. Students button-holed him in his office without appointments, and they debated with him at Harvard Policy Committee meetings for two hours every week. Editors of this newspaper called him often, sometimes at odd hours of the night. He was available for advice and conversation from the time he arrived in his office to the time he left...