Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...result of the match between the University and Yale chess players held at New Haven in Dwight Hal. The ten games began at 7.30 o'clock with the University men playing "white" on the odd-numbered boards. The last games ended at 11.30 o'clock--the shortest game-having lasted but 20 minutes. If the advantage gained in the two deciding games, on boards 5 and 7 respectively, could have been kept the University team would have won the match by two games, as only one was necessary...
Cross-country work was commenced yesterday with the announcement to the 50 odd runners who reported at the Locker Building that Dr. W. T. McCarty, who formerly ran and later coached under Jack Moakley, the famous Cornell director, had been secured to coach the Crimson harriers during the eight weeks of the fall season...
...present a complete collection of works on engineering and technical subjects connected with that science, beside a file of all the important periodicals on the subject, is now on the shelyes. Among the 2500 monographs there is an especially noteworthy list of books on electricity, while the 130 odd periodicals offer the latest news of developments in the field of engineering. The library is still in the formative stage, and additions are being made daily by purchase and bequest. The hours during which the room is open are from 9 to 5 o'clock daily, and from...
...Here began that part of his career that made him the hero of the younger Harvard men of twenty odd years ago. Theodore Roosevelt at the outbreak of the Spanish war chose Captain Wood as Colonel of the Rough Riders, taking himself the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; and it was due to the commander's energy and resolution that the needs of the regiment in those days of unpreparedness were quickly satisfied, and, when other organizations were fuming at Key West, the men were landed in Cuba to enter upon their short but valuable service...