Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treasures of Spain, snatched from Madrid's gun-gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver work, porcelain, tapestries, sculpture, manuscripts. For nearly two and a half years they had lain in crates, ponderously tagging after the defeated Government as it fled from Madrid to Valencia to Barcelona. Armored trucks finally took Spain's art along the refugee road...
...astronomical observatory, perched serenely on its remote mountain top and housing almost priceless equipment and records, should be-and is-among the safest places in the world. The steel dome and frame conduct lightning harmlessly to the ground. Steel and concrete cannot be set afire by a careless smoker. The cleared area around an observatory site would stop a forest fire short of damage to the instruments. A telescope anchored through concrete is practically earthquake-proof. Windstorms and hail are trifling annoyances...
...this separation," droned little Mr. Bilbo, "the blood stream of the white race shall remain uncontaminated and all the . . . blessings of the white man's civilization shall forever remain the priceless possession of the Anglo-Saxon. . . . There is an overmastering impulse, a divine afflatus among the mass of the Negroes of the U. S. for a country of their...
Since Blaschka and his father sent the first shipment of the priceless flowers to Harvard in 1887, the total output of their studio has come here. The last group of flowers to be sent, fifteen fruit models, arrived in 1936. There is nobody to carry on their work, because father and son always did their work without any assistants...
Carrying on in the William Powell-Myrna Loy tradition, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell succeed with little effort in becoming entangled in a theft and murder mystery. A mad whirl that includes to murders and two trips to the underworld is started by the theft of a priceless Shakespearean manuscript. As the plot swirls and eddies, our hero Joel Sloane, a dealer in rare books, emerges unscathed from an arrest by the police, an attempted seduction, and a gruesome automobile accident. But all ends happily when Joel is shot in the seat by his wife, though the title "Fast...