"Odds" is a word in ENGLISH
Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one
of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage;
superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability.
Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at
odds.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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