Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honored name into "ale taster." But testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation. The ale tester was supposed to array himself in leathern breeches and proceed to examine the village supply of home brew as produced. This he did by pouring a small quantity of the precious fluid upon an oaken stool, and seating himself there on-or therein. After contemplating the surrounding scenery for a fixed period he would attempt to rise. If the oaken seat adhered to the leathern seat of his breeches the ale was condemned as unfit for consumption-there was too much...
...Actacon. Many are the stimuli for the senses, but nowhere is the mind so provoked and fascinated as before the portrait sculpture of Jo Davidson. Master of men and millions, the face of John Davison Rockefeller is anxious, unbelievably seamed above his sparse and fragile body. Mistress of precious intellection and writer of what seems gibberish to most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina...
...family, sold to strangers, or new structures built in their stead. All the dwellings which were here up to last fall with the exception of the Hicks and Bridge houses, dated back some eighty or ninety years. Now as we see truck load after truck load of the precious earth rumbling off, some to the Law School, some to the site of the Dean's House at the Business School, and some to Soldiers Field, we are witnessing a great ending. The bones of the old town seen will be scattered to the four winds...
...have much importance. Tiles, plates, saucers, cups, flower pots, vases are so necessary they are commonplace, manufactured and bought by the million. Normal purchasers exercise a natural regard for what is pleasing in pottery, but to select pottery as the distinctive work of a gifted individual would seem precious to most people...
...Precious Metals and Price Changes", Professor Usher, Widener...