Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they had been told by agents of the Department of the Interior that they would not have to pay for this year's water until their crops were in, but in July, long before the crops were ready, the Government came demanding money- threatening to cut off the precious water. In some cases the water was cut off. And the ranks of the ruined were augmented...
After all, the two were not inconsistent. Professor SMITH, with his vigorous advocacy of freedom for the individual would doubtless be urgent in counseling respect for the law that is. What he deplores, as do all who hold precious liberty of initiative, struggle and achievement, is the existence of such laws as restrain the individual without giving commensurate social value. Before legislation in social control is enacted it should be inquired whether moral instruction may not in the long run be more effective in achieving the end sought without peril to character. Moreover, practical achievement must be taken into...
Maggie, the oldest, capable and devoted, got precious little help from moony-spoony May, the Campion beauty, or from butter-fingered Lily who couldn't say boo to a goose. But she scrimped and saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed...
Last week the drilling had descended 3,500 ft., passing through strata of granite gneiss, a substance never known to have yielded oil in commercial quantities. A pipe-line had been constructed from the orifice to a neighboring cranberry bog to store the precious fluid when and if it gushed. But not a smitch of oil appeared...
Only slight, however, was the Presidential disappointment. For in Her Majesty's stead he saw a flawless, exquisitely cut diamond, sparkling with a transparent, sky-blue light, hitherto unknown in precious stones. Weighing 136 carats, it is the largest cut diamond in the world, and its name is "Queen of Holland...