Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Splitting the Bill. Most counterfeiters learn their trade from other counterfeiters. Hugo taught himself-in the St. Louis public library. He began his studies in 1922, when he was 29. He had come to the U.S. from Sweden in 1909, had drifted from one odd job to another, had spent a year in a tuberculosis sanitarium, and was down & out. Hour after hour, day after day, he sat in the reading room, poring over books on photography, engraving and the history and manufacture of money...
...twenty man trip-squad was drawn from the forty odd players who reported to Munro on February 13 and who have been working out two hours a night is the Cage. The reserves who did not make the trip are still likely to see action later in the season...
...spring of 1942, U.S. troops went ashore on Tonga with orders to "take the island and destroy the enemy." The invaders were met by a group of friendly Tongans who explained that they had heard of Pearl Harbor long before, had promptly tossed all of the islands' 100-odd Japanese into jail in the capital city of Nukualofa. Later, thousands of other Allied soldiers stopped off at the Tongan Islands on their way to & from the Pacific battlefronts. During this time, Queen Salote wisely instructed her people to retire to the interior, safely avoided any entanglements, economic or romantic...
With this sort of central character, one would expect a novel in the tradition of Faulkner. But "A Grove of Fever Trees" has much more the air of a collection of odd and colorful family reminiscences and in this setting, the character of Danny appears singularly out of place...
Most of the 400-odd TV men who gathered in Chicago last week for the Second National Television Conference were in a cheerfully self-satisfied mood. They crowded the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House and reported black ink on their books for the first time...