Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work! I thought I was just about to share in it, when the officers of the Widener Library gave me talismans more precious to me than those of the Arabian Nights, the key to the stacks, and the key to my study. Alas. May I say that never thoroughly discovered what the undisturbed peace of the scholar in his study meant, and that I was quite unable to explore completely the treasures fled in Widener? I was surrounded by so many friends--old ones, whom I was happy, to meet again, new ones, whom I was happy, to make...
...organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained and sent back to his native Senegal, where he can enjoy himself with the rest of the savages." Florence Reed: "At a committee hearing on a bill to legalize Sunday theatrical performances I pleaded: ' Give us this blessed, precious 24 hours of rest on Sundays. Please don't take it away from us!'" William A. Brady: "I told the committee: ' No matter what laws are passed by the Legislature the actors will not work on Sunday. The actors have the most powerful labor union (the Actors...
...lighting was by candles or lamps there may have been some necessity for bringing the students together at lectures during daylight. Now that modern systems, of lighting have come into use, however, such a necessity has been removed and there seems to be no reason for forfeiting the precious hours of the morning to lectures and classes. The student is required to spend his fresh, vigorous hours trudging on daily pilgrimages from shrine to shrine, bowing for fifty-three minute intervals before this diety or that and scribbling hieroglyphs which are to be deciphered and interpreted at some future date...
...became prosperous, he became also a reader and collector of precious books, until his library numbered five thousand volumes, and was described by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop as the most valuable library of English books with which he was acquainted. Before the death of Mr. Dowse, he conveyed this library, gathered with infinite care, to the Massachusetts Historical Society, thus becoming at that time its chief benefactor. His executors, authorized by his will to distribute the residue of his estate for "literary, scientific, and charitable purposes", conveyed to the City of Cambridge $10,000 on condition that $600 a year...
...branch of science, there to wallow for a year and to drag down by his incompetence--for who is not incompetent when set to that most hopeless of all tasks, working at something which for him is utterly futile?--to drag down by his incompetence, I say, the few precious students who would else do well because that subject is their special interest and acknowledged vocation...