Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Treasury went into the public marketplace crying a ware: "For sale, $200,000,000 worth of U. S. promises to pay back in 30 years conjoined with four one hundredths of the total every year in the meanwhile. Buy, good folk! These wares grow rare: five years ago, $25,000,000,000 of U. S. promises to pay with interest were in your hands. Now there are only $21,000,000,000 of them left...
Gabrilowitsch is a virtuoso of rare repute. He is an accomplished pianist and an equally well-known conductor. He was a pupil of Rubinstein. Since 1900, he has entertained many thousands in this country, both as a pianist and since 1918 as director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He will play a classical program including compositions of Handel, Bach, and Beethoven...
...Griffith took his first step forward with The Birth of a Nation when the ranks were straggling and new. Since then he has widened the margin of his advance and stands unchallenged as Commanding Officer. This absolute leader in the film field has made another of his all too rare productions. To Germany he went to make it; took Germany's post-War hunger as his theme; two peasants are his personalities. Dealing in the oldest properties of drama-love and poverty - he has made an extraordinary film...
Dooley, Bunnell, Stafford, and Williams were the outstanding quarterbacks to be considered. The first two named were finally selected in that order. On a dry field Bunnell might have surpassed his brilliant Dartmouth rival. As it was, he called his plays with rare judgment. Stafford bows to no one as a defensive player, but the Crimson team lacked the inherent power of the attack to give him a real opportunity to show his field generalship to advantage. Williams was a brilliant ball carrier in the Harvard Princeton game, but he was playing more as a halfback than as a quarter...
Another valuable and rare item is the 1816 edition of Christabel and Kubla Khan, Coleridge's own works, which contains notes by him, correcting or improving the original text. The "Christabel" has many lines crossed out and others written in manuscript on the margin...