Word: odds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then $7.63; it looks like business to have some odd cents on hand, and now to work...
That he made a big fortune in twenty odd years...
BOSTON MUSEUM. "Dr. Clyde" is a rather amusing piece, although the plot is very slight. The best character in the play is Higgins, the servant of Dr. Clyde, who, by reading his master's medical books at odd moments, imagines that he knows everything about the theory of medicine, and only needs practice. He accordingly undertakes to prescribe for a patient in the doctor's absence. The acting is quite good, Warren, of course, leading with his assumption of Higgins. Mr. Burrows, as Dr. Clyde, and Mrs. Vincent, as his wife, are both good; we have rarely seen Mrs. Vincent...
LITTLE'S BLOCK will be renumbered next year, and all the rooms on the front of the building will have odd numbers...
...attempt any palliation, and if we hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that in a future case even he, powerful conjurer though he be, must needs exert himself to introduce more blue and less crimson into his already falsely drawn picture. It does seem a little odd, now that we think of it, that "the eleven-men game was a concession originally to Harvard, made two years ago," when we recollect that two years ago, in the autumn of '75, We played Yale with fifteen men. It again seems a little odd that "she [Harvard] gave...