Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northern Front brought Emperor Haile Selassie news that 4,700 Italians have been killed by Ethiopians in savage skirmishes bordering the area nominally conquered by Il Duce's forces. Runners from the Southern Front told of the capture from Italians of 1,000 precious rifles and 20 priceless machine guns, of Italian tanks stranded and abandoned, Italian native troops mutinying...
...more need priceless works of art be devoured by revenous bugs and worms. A lethal chamber, installed by the Fogg Art Museum for fumigation purposes, has inaugurated a new era in the career of old treasures...
Strategically that camping ground was of more value to Italy than the just-captured muddy little town behind it, for it was a practical airplane landing field, one of the few in Ethiopia, and a priceless advance base for Italian bombers and scouting planes...
...Harry Elkins Widener, the man responsible for it all. From schooldays a great collector of rare editions of all kinds, Widener, when here, began to interest himself in Robert Louis Stevenson. After having built up a fine collection, he was able in later years to round it out with priceless treasures secured from a George M. Williamson. Especially did Widener love to possess volumes that had been cherished by the authors themselves, volumes with personal dedications to the authors' friends and patrons. Because of this love for books with a personal touch, he spent much time and money in acquiring...
...spacious newspaper room. In a part of the building which is not guarded as though under quarantine, bound editions from London, Paris, New York, Boston, Springfield, Chicago, San Francisco, and even Atlanta may be viewed at leisure. Be the explorer a genuine antiquarian, he will be shown priceless colonial papers kept in fireproof cases. The contrast between the two systems is discernible. One is good, the other bad, completely inadequate. The powers in Widener have obstinately refused the suggestion that a Hearst paper, for historical purposes only, be kept on file. They have ignored the mumblings which may be heard...