Word: preciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall be given His Majesty's pajamas and also, of course, according to ancient custom, "the bed wherein His Majesty lay, together with all the curtains and valances thereof and all the cushions and clothes within the chamber, together with the furniture"-these to become in future times precious relics...
Camp Kare-Free's guests are both funny and pathetic. Exhausted from a 50-week grind in city offices, they are pitiably anxious to have fun on their precious fortnight's vacation, to put their best foot forward with the other guests, perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears...
...nobody thought that when Kitty stomped out of Harvard Hall he'd from the shelf the precious Shakspere stol'n and put him in his pocket. After all, Shakspere is the immortal bard who depends not on a single man for his interpretation today-a single man whose little life, as far as his plays go, is decidedly not rounded with a sleep. Could the retirment of one great teacher mean the passing of Shakspere from Harvard College...
...step up to the microphone sponsored by an undergraduate organization, the radio has become a real power in the university, not just a subject for turned-up academic noses. The contributions to political thought by such men as Professor Marx and Professor Holcombe may be limited in the fifteen precious minutes alloted them, but their words, compared to the usual radio palaver, should strike the public as gems of purest ray screne...
...yields double or treble harvests; in some places there are seven harvests in 15 months. Could Mussolini starve Egypt by damming Lake Tana, diverting the waters of the Blue Nile from Egypt? No, says Ludwig; only 3% of Egypt's water comes from Lake Tana, none of its precious silt. From immemorial time the Nile's floods have been Egypt's prime worry. Too little water means famine; too much, catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs...