Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rowing an easy forty-eight, the Waiters' Crew went over the half-mile course this afternoon in what Coach Newell afterward described as an exhibition of rare form. Their time of two minutes and fifty seconds is easily a minute better than any crew before has done, and the strenuous pace told on the oarsmen at the finish when four of them keeled over...
LAST ESSAYS OF MAURICE HEWLETT ?Scribner ($2.50). That rare combination of quiet humor and penetrating wisdom which was Hewlett in his earlier years, grew with the man into a rich, mellowed roundness, here shown at its smooth and polished best. The quiet of the little Wiltshire village where he spent his latter days seems to have crept into his writing, giving it a leisured charm which recalls the 18th Century essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that...
After its third successful appearance in Boston, "The Whole Town's Talking" begins to stand out as one of those rare performances which one enjoys more the second time than the first, and more the third time than the second. One is able at least to escape from the relentless grip of the fast-moving comedy to appreciate the skill with which every twist of the story is made to add a little more to the general excitement; one is not so entirely absorbed in following the action, one has leisure to ravel in the luxurious loveliness of Miss Owen...
...both old and young, the full enjoyment of Spring has been denied until re cent years. For when the young male turns to love to satisfy the cosmic urge, the female instinctively turns to meeting and conference. Whatever may be her mission or purpose in life, it is a rare Spring nowadays which fails to provide a conference or a convention on a suitable theme. Last week* provided...
...University Press very recently. On April 14, "The Siege of Boston," comprising the diary of Lieutenant John Barker during the siege of Boston from November 1774 to May 1776, was published. The book is bound in black cloth with scarlet paper sides, illustrated with twelve reproductions from very rare originals in private and semi-public collections, and enclosed in a slide-case. The edition is definitely limited to 500 copies. So great has been the local demand that less than 200 copies are now available...