Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priceless donations were added to the University's treasure collection Saturday evening at the dedication ceremonies of the Houghton Library...
...Barnes also reminded the Senators that Todd had been carrying its yards and developing its now priceless know-how for 25 years without any help from the Navy...
...citizens we gratefully acknowledge a priceless national heritage of freedom and democratic ideals for which earlier generations struggled and sacrificed. We cherish this heritage more deeply when we see it attacked by a totalitarian threat. We are resolved to defend it from the menace of rival systems from without and from the degradation of abuse or neglect from within...
Busiest museum director in the U.S. last week was smiling, 220-lb. Paul Parker, who runs the trim, modern Fine Art Center Museum in the small (pop. 37,000) Rocky Mountain resort of Colorado Springs. Priceless masterpieces from famous museums all over the U.S. were arriving at his back door by the truckload. Spouting South Dakota cuss words at a crew of workmen, Director Parker carefully unloaded the valuable arrivals, stored them away in a basement maze of gigantic vertical steel racks. By last week the number of arrivals, including top-flight Cézannes, Daumiers, Goyas and Van Dycks...
...sent down El Greco's View of Toledo and John Singer Sargent's portrait of Padre Sebastiano. Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell. The Whitney Museum, the Phillips Memorial in Washington, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, all removed priceless works from their walls to send to Knoedler's in Manhattan, because an art critic liked them...