Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most precious of all the letters were the two in which Boswell had asked Margaret Montgomerie to marry him and in which she agreed to do so. Colonel Isham, chattering with excitement, displayed in an alley between boxes of steel, not ebony, the placid sentimentalities of two charming people. In this strange place he read aloud Boswell's "Read this in your own room and think as long as you please. Only let me have a positive answer as I am quite dependent on you. ... I would share a kingdom with you if I had it. . . ." Peggy, who later watched...
...ever saw a circus train he would know that the last coach of every circus train that ever moved a mile out of the yards was the railroad caboose, not the last coach of the circus. And if he did catch the last coach why did he risk his precious life crawling over the top of the coaches in a vain effort to reach the engineer when it would have been much easier to step into the cupola of the caboose and arouse the train crew, and have them stop the train...
Harboring ones individuality requires as infinite care as harboring a precious jewel and not the least worthy guard is self reliance. In a large group of men, such as at a college or university, there is often a species of gregarious frenzy which might be termed the herd spirit. It is the Crimson's belief that there is less of this mania evidenced at Harvard than at any other institution, but no college can be entirely free from its ravages. The preventative lies in each case with the man himself, for every man has his own means of fortifying...
Newton D. Baker, Wartime War Secretary, arose and said: "Almost ten years have gone by and we are beginning to see the real meaning and the precious fruit of the struggle. In the Old World, at least, men's minds are constructively working for peace. . . . Whether this or that nation joins or does not join them means more, no doubt, to some of us zealots than it really does in the long run to the cause...
...tariff rates on French exports are works of art (under 100 years old), 20% ad valorem (that is, upon the U. S. valuation), silk wearing apparel, average of 60%; walnuts (France exported $4,861,000 worth to the U. S. last year) 4¢ per pound unshelled, 12¢ shelled; precious and semiprecious stones (not including pearls), 10% ad valerem on uncut stones; perfumes containing alcohol 75% ad valorem plus 40¢ a pound; perfumes not containing alcohol 75% ad valorem; soaps and soap preparations from 15% to 30% ad valorem. These are the chief French exports...