Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many another delicacy, too numerous to mention, was printed on the gilt menus, while the Zakouska, Russian equivalent for hors d'ouevres, consisted of everything from an olive to caviar, not excepting sterletes sigi-a rare and costly fish...
...period of totality will vary from only a few seconds to about two minutes in the favored points near the centre of the belt. During this brief period will be visible the rare sight of the sun's corona, ejections of gas driven out some millions of miles from the sun's seething fireball. This corona casts a ghostly light and exhibits itself around the dark rim of the moon, a glow from the sun at the inner ring, radiating outward in soft tints like a halo. Meanwhile, the sky is darkened and the stars are visible. Near the moon...
...session, observers watched it and wondered. What was the matter? What was lacking? What made it seem so strange? Then a close observer discovered the cause. For ten days on end Senator Heflin had been silent. Not a speech had he made. In the last session, it was a rare day, barring Sundays, when the Alabaman did not make at least a 20-minute oration, or perhaps two such or maybe one of an hour and a half's duration. His subject ? whatever bill was on the floor ? was almost invariably Republican corruption. Sometimes his col leagues left...
...encouraged and the drama of Greece and Old England. But the humanities themselves are not sufficiently human to include modern life and art. "Art," of course, is a big word. Very few of the plays written for the "47 Workshop" are even good theatre. The creative talent is rare, especially rare in the drama and among folk of undergraduate years. Of the productions that have proceeded from Cambridge the largest and better portion have been by adult writers who have entered Harvard mainly or solely for the opportunity Professor Baker offered. But since when have students in the laboratory been...
...Hindu play. A Hindu play sounds formidable, clogged with dead bodies floating down the Ganges and that sort of thing. As a matter of fact, most of the CART is comic. There are courtesans and kings, several scenes, no dramatic pyramiding as we know it. Rare colorings and scents of strange philosophies mingle swiftly with the laughter. Altogether a shrewd and sensitive experiment...