Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negro is inferior, and we must give him all the education that he can take. We must suppress lynching, because it is an acknowledgment that we, with all our machinery of government, are not ready to apply to the negroes those principles of justice which are our most precious heritage...
...Greek legend, too, might be reconstructed on this surmise. A stray gate or barn door, with its precious freight, might have traveled even further, and carried to the land of the Hellenes their fabled ancestors. Deucalion and Pyrrha...
...action catches the fire from the flame of a royalist plot, which having been stamped out in France has thrown a few sparks across the Atlantic. These may have smouldered for some time but when we take up the story they have started a fence blaze around a precious paper held by a gentleman as perfectly eccentric as any we have met with in many moons. It is he, this "unspeakable gentleman", who for a day and a night fights the world, his son, Fate, and the reader, with the meagre assistance of rum, Madeirs, and a negro servant...
Whatever may be said or thought about Houses and scraps of paper, one thing is certain: if the bill becomes a law certificates of citizenship will become as precious as manuscript editions. At least it is an additional persuasive reason for becoming an American citizen...
Most Americans go to Oxford, and that seems to me all the more reason why the opportunity of going to Cambridge is the more precious. An American who goes to an English university does so to associate, for a period, with the English rather than with his own countrymen. The position occupied by Oxford and Cambridge in England is absolutely equal, although Oxford is the better known in America because of her Rhodes Scholars. There is no Americans in Cambridge--for Americans in Cambridge during 1920-21 vigorously opposed the formation of one--and consequently any American in residence...