Word: pricelessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seas untouched by the white man. Many a sea-captain must have been surprised to find, on returning home, that some basket or spear-head which he had picked up as a mere curio was sought after by the scolarly directors of a pioneer museum as an item both priceless and probably never again to be duplicated...
From the mountains of New England to the shaggy slopes of Georgia's hills, flames ate greedily at priceless timber. Red-eyed, smoke-bleary, smudge-blackened men fought, cursed, touched off backfires. Out over the Atlantic rolled billows of smoke, swept east by the prevailing winds. Airmen on patrol for submarines groped through the haze...
...show was a good first try. It was a show that anyone but Axis sympathizers could enjoy. It had information, guts, a good musical score, and the best dramatic material extant (the fighting fronts themselves) to draw from. If its makers use these priceless, uncensored gifts wisely, they may have the hit show of the year...
Ranging from a model of several Eskimos doing a dance in a steam sweat bath to priceless Chinese pottery dug up in the Philippines, the exhibition is arranged in such a way that the visitor follows a definite series of displays. To make sure that the spectator follows the correct order, Frederick Pleasants, who directed the construction of the room, placed show cases, and the large boards on which-the exhibits are arranged, in various positions around the room, and sent students wandering through the maze...
...opinion of the War Department, mail ranks second only to food as a buck-you-uppo for morale. On ration trains, mail goes to the troops right along with food. But cargo space is priceless. Last week the War Department, taking a tip from the British, decided to speed mail deliveries by photographing batches of letters on microfilm and flying them to world-scattered bases. There the letters, to be known as "V-Mail," will be turned into enlarged prints before delivery...