Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been added to the circle of those who knew the truth. Under the lynx-eyes of private detectives the fragments were assembled and plates made. During the two weeks required to run off 1,850,000 copies of the magazine.* the detectives stood at their posts; at night the precious plates rested securely in a safe. Late one afternoon, five men with sawed-off shotguns robbed the Cuneo plant of $8,000, but not the "mystery" plates. Then came the most perilous operation: 1,850,000 copies of Cosmopolitan had to be distributed throughout the land to wholesalers and retailers...
...buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...
...have glorified public collections. It is not difficult to realize the value to scholars, and thence to literature, of the accessibility of books in such collections as the Widener at Harvard, the Huntington in California, and the Morgan in New York City. Incidentally, the Huntington Library owns the most precious collection of books ever accumulated by one individual...
...Every day the engine would chuff to a neighboring village and return with food, mostly canned. Amid this interlude of perplexity, and while the empty tin cans were piling up on either side of the track, Trotsky amused himself by re-reading several works by Anatole France, famed and precious French scoffer. When, in obedience to fresh orders from Moscow, the Trotskys were booted into Turkey (TIME, Feb. 11), Comrade Trotsky sent the following note to Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha: "I was brought here against my will...
...token of the 250-year Byrd tradition, as precious as her wedding ring. It is a ring of old white gold set with diamonds. Two hundred years ago it belonged to Evelyn Byrd, "the fairest flower" of Colonial Virginia, who, when she was presented at the Court of St. James's, met the gallant Earl of Peterborough. They fell in love and became engaged to be married. But when Evelyn Byrd returned to Virginia, her father flew into a rage. The Earl was a Catholic. The daughter of a loyal Church of Englander might never marry him. The lovely...