Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deodorants across their faces as they prowled about Canton streets strewn with decomposing Chinese corpses. The few available surgeons operated night and day in improvised hospitals. But Chinese morale did not crack. Between every raid, sweating Cantonese hustled through into the interior of China by rail and truck the precious munitions landed from British Hong Kong 78 miles down the Pearl River...
...five is so transparent that its gall bladder, intestine, heart and a big vein in the tail are easily seen. Although telescope fish cost only 3? apiece in Philadelphia, only place in the U. S. where they are bred, the visibility of their internal organs makes them precious to medical scientists, particularly to Philadelphia Pharmacologist Arno Viehoever. Dr. Viehoever discovered that the transparent water flea, Daphnia, was a marvelous creature in which to study the biological effects of drugs (TIME, Feb. 14), searched the world for another transparent creature nearer to Man in its structure and physiology, found the transparent...
...early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...
...name: Emile Herzog), journalist, critic, biographer, historian, lecturer, professional Anglophile and the New York Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...
After much waiting. Secretary Morgenthau, speaking by telephone to First Secretary H. Merle Cochran of the U. S. Embassy, Paris, dictated two precious paragraphs. After these were handed on Embassy stationery to Premier Daladier. confirming that what he was going to do was no violation of the Tripartite Monetary Accord of the U. S., France and Britain which was signed to keep their three currencies level with each other (TIME, Oct. 5. 1936), Premier Daladier was able to announce devaluation of the franc over the radio and to tell Frenchmen that the pound and dollar would not be devalued...