Word: pricelessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a primary purpose of making the University's rare books "earn their keep" by exhibition to the public eye, Widener, Jr., otherwise known as the Houghton Library, was completed less than two years ago. Formerly the ancient manuscripts and priceless leather-bound and gold-stamped volumes had been stored in the deepest dungeons of neighboring Widener...
...well-guarded brick building in Chicago houses what may well be the most priceless card index in the U.S. The index belongs to a young chemist named Martin H. Heeren. The cards bear strange titles...
Doctors aboard ship gave him first aid, then rushed him ashore, where nurses and orderlies handled him like a piece of priceless Wedgwood. After X rays had located the projectile, surgeons working from behind a steel plate deftly and delicately removed it. Marine ordnance men exploded the shell, sent the shattered casing to Gordon, now convalescing...
...rescued, brought bad news. The man killed aboard the PT had been assigned to go below and get one device of great importance; had he been able to dispose of it? It was not a matter for guesswork; capture of the equipment would give the enemy a priceless advantage in Pacific operations...
Obvious reasons for the improvement: 1) months of intensive invasion training, both in the U.S. and North Africa; 2) priceless experience for the staff officers in handling troops under battle conditions. But, these considerations aside, it remained clear that Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. had put together an exceedingly good team of unit commanders to lead his troops...