Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Where they came from interested Wall Street. No gold shipment of such size has cleared from the U. S. for Italy this year. Smug, the Bank of Italy (having probably obtained its U. S. gold via France) would admit only that Italy had got it, would use the precious stuff to keep her lira on the Gold Standard...
Yale University, much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with...
...rich man hoards because in times of a currency panic the machinery of trade stops, and he can pick up bargains in stocks, bonds, real estate from panic-ridden unfortunates who will sell anything to get the precious metal...
They said they have blasted down to actual contact with the Egypt's strong room wall. To burst it may be possible before winter storms set in. The splendid shilling (an ordinary English coin dated 1918) is the first "treasure," the first bit of precious metal brought up from the Egypt after more than a year of diving...
...authors' author. His cultivation of the "stream-of-consciousness" method, use of a wide-angled lens in picturing his landscapes, resulted in writing too hard for the general reader. Other authors have taken from Maestro Joyce a hint here & there, or have aped him slavishly for the precious few. Herr Doblin is the first to copy him on a large scale and for a wide audience. Perhaps only through such filters as Alexander platz will Joyce's strong waters be made potable to the public...