Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conceivably tend to draw its men almost exclusively from Harvard, or favored sections of the country; it might develop into a group, characterized by intellectual snobbishness and unduly impressed with its own importance. Properly conceived, it can have two important results. For the brilliant man, it should be a priceless goal, a sharp spur to original thought. To the average student, it should give answer to oft repeated condemnations of advanced study as useless research, and should inspire a new respect for great scholarship...
When last week's puzzlers had finished grappling with the 20th question ("Is a porpoise a fish or a mammal?") and were about to turn to page 55 for the answers, they were arrested by still another question. It read: "What is the Priceless Ingredient of every product? (See page 55 for the answer)." In an instant the puzzlers saw that the 21st question was part of a half-page advertisement for Squibb Aspirin. On page 55 they learned not only that a porpoise is a mammal, but that "The Priceless Ingredient of Every Product is the Honor...
...used as a reference book among school children. My one and only interest in your broadcast is that it appeals to my children, who are of school age and I feel that among this element you will be building up a following which in years to come will be priceless...
...tropics, the tropics presuppose a disreputable cabaret, and the cabaret presupposes a girl who wants to keep straight or go straight. All these elements are supplied by the studio. Miss Twelvetrees is a stranded entertainer who is discharged when the depression penetrates to the tropics. There is a priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over...
Murder in the Squire's Pew tells more of robbery and intrigue than of murder; you feel Author Fletcher granted a corpse only out of deference to his readers' taste. When a well-to-do English clergyman discovered that his church had been robbed of some priceless 15th Century church vessels he was naturally upset; when the detectives he sent for found a dead man in the squire's pew he was struck all of a heap. The murderer was tracked and some of the treasure recaptured in a few days, but before the whole truth came out Canon Effingham...