Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Canterbury's 25th birthday dinner in Manhattan last week went rich and famous men: retired Steelman James A. Farrell and Railroader Henry Havemeyer, trustees of the school; 100-odd old boys, among them Philip Burnham, editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. Too busy to attend was old Canterburian Robert Sweeney of the American Eagle Squadron, training as air fighters in England. In jail in Italy was George Ehret, '29, accused of fooling around with Italian currency (TIME, Nov. 25). Classmates were not surprised, recalled that George once catapulted a butterball to the dining-room ceiling under...
...California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff of ocean air. California rebuilt its breeding business into a $40,000,000-a-year industry...
...past month a group of six hardy astronomers has travelled the fifty miles to Oak Ridge and back every clear night. The thirty-odd eight by ten inch photographic plates which they take each night will not have been completely studied for a year or more, but some results of interest have already been found...
...balance the Chinese dollar, $50,000,000 in war credits). Last week to Argentina went $50,000,000-a loan observers agreed would go chiefly to aid Britain. Talk was heard that the U. S. should buy or seize the 80-odd refugee ships now rotting in U. S. harbors, sell them to England, perhaps also sell the 88 old World War I merchant hulks...
Today there are some 300 miniature-auto racing clubs in the U. S., some 9,000 enthusiasts (90% adult) who proudly call themselves spindizzies. The pioneering Doolings, who have turned their hobby into a livelihood, now tool out 600 little Doolings a month, have 20-odd competitors...