Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare, rich scandal...
...been away for four days. She was with the iceman's girl. All evening the mother was after Jennie to tell where she's been and what she has been doing. A millionaire. . . . You know the reformer. . . .Yes, that's the name, an old fellow." A rare, rich case! Off to the office...
...Crimson, tonight's contest should provide an opportunity for Coach Winsor to give his subs some action in a game. Hitherto chances of this sort have been rare enough, as the schedule has proved to be unusually stiff...
...Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. A female pigeon was transformed into a male as a result of a tubercular condition affecting the spleen, liver and glands. While sex reversal has been frequently caused in the early egg stage, such changes in adult birds are very rare. It indicates that the hereditary basis of no bodily or mental characteristic may be considered as irrevocably fixed, and it is possible that if the study of glandular heredity advances far enough, many characteristics may be brought under control...
...Handful of Pleasant Delights" is an accurate, carefully edited re-print of a collection of Tudor poetry originally published in 1566. The first edition was entirely lost and modern reprints are rare...