Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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University officials are always appealing for unrestricted gifts to Harvard, but each year the University is given an odd not of donations that must disturb the auditors...
...Army football team, which ran all over Soldiers Field on Saturday, may also have run off with the movies of the game. When Henry Lamar arrived at the Blockhouse last night to pick up the films, they were nowhere to be found, which meant that the 50-odd devotees who had gathered in the Lamont Forum Room for the occasion were sent home disappointed...
Much of the effect of the football parody was lost by the absence of the Cadet Corps. The Bank returned the snub, however, by punctuating its greetings to the 100-odd West Pointers with a question mark...
Neutral Field. But that night, as he prepared for the last, 2,300-mile leg of his journey to Wake Island, an odd atmosphere of expectancy and something very like tension settled over the expedition. Truman and MacArthur-who had never set eyes on each other, and who had clashed publicly over U.S. policy in Formosa (TIME, Sept. 4)-seemed, at the moment, like the sovereign rulers of separate states, approaching a neutral field with panoplied retainers to make talk and watch each other's eyes...
...Odd Ties. But Getulio Vargas, dictator-President of Brazil from 1930-45, was no unknown quantity. He first came up out of Rio Grande do Sul in the depth of the depression as the rallying point and presidential candidate of all the discontented elements in Brazil. He was always a man of action. Counted out at the polls by the old-guard regime, he marched on Rio with his gauchos and seized the presidency...