Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fascinated, the criminologists, psychiatrists and judge prolonged the trial with enthusiasm and curiosity. Although the prisoner had already confessed to every charge, Teutons hoped that further probing would bring to light details precious to Science...
...Majesty was graciously pleased to approve the design of a two-foot key of "precious metal" to be presented to him with the Freedom of the City of White Plains...
...weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which is held several feet away from him instead of close to the ropes, against his lips; Ayres wearing a full dress suit in a nightclub, a sartorial liberty which even Gene Tunney in his most precious period never ventured. Only real shots: the façade of Madison Square Garden; some cleverly interposed scenes from actual Garden fights...
...your officers had yielded ... it would have injured the spiritual responses of the American people. It would have been a step on the pathway of Government doles. . . . We are dealing with the intangibles of life and ideals. ... A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the Treasury. . . . In all this there is the imponderable of spiritual ideal and spiritual growth. . . . You have renewed and invigorated the spiritual life of the nation...
...Beard also flayed Congress for "frittering away thousands of precious hours on petty and trifling bills"; for "turning executive officers loose" under too general laws; for barring Cabinet members from floor debates; for "comic opera" procedure...