Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week when Dr. Charles Herbert La Wall, able dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, said that old-fashioned drugstores' shelf-ware, mortars & pestles, glass window globes filled with red-& blue-colored water, had been largely destroyed, predicted that they would be listed as "almost priceless collectors' items of the next century...
...Baldwin is a first cousin of Rudyard Kipling. At the poet's house he met his invaluable Wife Lucy. Together they fear God to the point of never reading Sunday papers. From the Prime Minister's lips once fell the priceless phrase, possible only in England: "Having talked with people who read the newspapers on the Sabbath, I am of the opinion...
...drawings for 3½ guineas. He was too thrifty to give it to his King and he seems to have forgotten the book entirely. More than 70 years later, early in the reign of George III, a Mr. Dalton reached into a chest at Windsor Castle, pulled out the priceless book of Leonardo drawings...
...Hitler's hero, Frederick the Great, "I intend in my State that every man amuse himself in his own way." But the Nazis, many of whom had been treated for abnormalities by Dr. Hirschfeld, called his work "un-German," seized and destroyed half a ton of his priceless files, pamphlets and books in their great book-bonfire (TIME...
...priceless asset to Coca-Cola's claims department is Perry Wilbur Fattig. When a customer says he was harmed by something he found swishing around in the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig stands ready to eat what the customer did. Most cases concern drowned bugs and Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs...