Word: precious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Illinois Central's crack Panama Limited slowed for a laggard signal. From his starched collar to his shiny black shoes, the stocky, craggy-faced passenger was obviously a farmer returning from the city, impatient to see how many inches the corn had grown in his absence, begrudging every precious second of daylight lost in transit. Finally, 172 miles and 155 minutes out of Chicago, the train glided to a halt at Mattoon, III., and the fretful passenger hopped...
...professors [June 25]. What is the matter with them? Don't they know they can't get a degree that way? How dare these beatniks question the very purpose of a university! (Next, they'll be challenging the worth of grades.) How dare they dawdle away precious years in the idle pursuit of understanding and self-knowledge, when out in the world there is profit to be made...
...PRECIOUS STONES AND OTHER CRYSTALS, text by Rudolf Metz. 191 pages. Viking. $25. Dr. Metz, a mineralogist, has assembled the handsomest collection of minerals, precious, semiprecious and just plain beautiful, to be found anywhere outside a museum. The 89 flaw less color plates run the gamut from gold just as prospectors sometimes find it to the canary-yellow Tiffany diamond, 128.51 carats cut into 90 facets and worth $900,000. Dr. Metz's running comment is on the textbookish side, but no matter. With such cool splendors to survey, who wants to read...
...Your issue of June 18, like so many of its predecessors, was a precious contribution to our education. The article on Gemini 4 was thorough and scientific as well as rich in humor and sentiment; and, at opposite poles, the article on prehistoric Cycladic statuary was an expert and illuminating review of the evolution of Greek sculpture. Please continue to engage men and women of high competence in their fields to keep us informed on the many aspects of our complex and fascinating age. Sincerest congratulations...
Poachers in the Mines. Employers fret about all this, but they have their hands full just competing for help. Because labor has become more precious than goods, German manufacturers wink at pilferage that costs them an estimated $1 billion a year. Dutch housebuilders commonly pay their men "black salaries"-10% to 20% above the legal limit-or lose them; last year 18 small Dutch textile mills closed for lack of workers. Belgian coal companies, which fly in weekly planeloads of Turkish miners, cry that Dutch and German labor poachers steal their recruits almost as fast as they arrive...