Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scouting the precious testimony of President Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange that the public was to blame for its mad scramble to participate in the Coolidge Bull market, the burly little Representative from Manhattan charged that brokers and operators always retained a high pressure press agent to puff stocks selected for manipulation. From his trunk he fished out evidence furnished by one Arthur Newton Plummer, who had "handled" 61 stocks...
...temperatures, was the basis for the alchemical transmutation of the elements. With retorts, alembics, beakers, pots, furnaces and incantations. Greek. Latin and Arabic experimenters sought first to purge quicksilver of Aristotle's four pristine elements. Mercury cleansed of earth, fire, air and water might then be changed to precious gold and silver. The rush for mercury in Arkansas last week was paralleled by a rush into Canada's Great Bear Lake region for radium, the modern transmuter's lodestone...
...time be kind enough to him and to us to preserve his active mind for many years. Nothing could add more to our precious heritage of literature than for him to write (or merely compile) The Philosophy of Life and Thought...
...natural inconveniences, and perhaps for ordinary table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection of books reflects the predominance of Economics, Romance Languages, and English specialists in the personnel of the House. In the cellar of Hicks House the Library has its massive vault for precious books, where carefully guarded from the vulgar eye lie such treasures as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer, and an early set of Beaumont and Fletcher. In addition, in order to protect the sensitive spirits of Kirkland House, the library has placed Mother Goose Censored, the Limericks of Norman Douglas, and James...
...clique of thieves in India have in their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...