Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Japanese invaded Java in 1942 von Koenigswald was a prisoner for three years. His precious bones were safe. The three Gigantopithecus teeth were hidden in a mile bottle with a Swedish friend.--Life...
Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...
...approach itself remains open. It is to be hoped that, with the air cleared, discussions may proceed in an atmosphere of complete frankness and understanding. . . . [And] when, in the fullness of time, reunion with another Christian body is achieved, it will not be at the expense of the very precious unity that already exists within our own Church...
Dishes rattled, plaster cracked, pictures fell from the walls. At the first ominous rumble one morning last week, residents of Niagara Falls swept to a panicky conclusion: something drastic had happened to the city's most precious scenic attraction...
...missing and fine albums have been out of stock for years. The quality of twelve inch disks, while improved since the war, is still ragged, with imperfect surfaces and edges and gritty tone creeping up all too often. Needless duplication of the Tschaikowsky, Beeethoven, and Brahms symphonies wastes precious material while the lesser known but valuable works of such composers as Mozart, Purcell, and most moderns are sadly neglected. American catalogues list seven versions of Brahms's First Symphony and none of Mozart's important Seventh Clarinet Trio in E flat...