Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference report on the Appropriation Bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. (Went to the President.) ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Alanson B. Houghton to be Ambassador to Great Britain. ¶ Ratified a convention with Chile for the mutual protection of trademarks. ¶ Gave up a precious afternoon and evening of work in respect to the memory of the late Senator Medill McCormick (see below). ¶ Extensively debated the McFadden Bill, which would allow National Banks to establish branches. ¶ Debate on the Isle of Pines Treaty became futile when Senator Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee...
...produced a copy of The Solar Path, prospectus written by himself. "With each copy of this I give away a bond redeemable for $20 in 1960. ... At a height of about 800 miles from here, there is a solid land, a new earth. There we will find riches and precious stones in abundance and we intend to claim that new domain...
Similarly, but not be mentioned in the same paragraph, the Freshman Jubilee had two of its precious hours lopped off ruthlessly a few years ago. Dances at the Union no longer reach well into the morning as was their wont...
...champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
...quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth century, and it is used merely to give light for night digging...