Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present paved streets in Tokyo are as rare as pearls in Cape Cod oysters. Sidewalks are non-existent outside of a small business district. The street car system is antiquated, and there is no sanitary sewage system. In rainy weather the mud in the streets is so deep that people are obliged to go about their business in rubber boots...
...cannot serve as a stimulus to meet appointments or to prepare assignments. It is true that the authority to employ disciplinary measures can be invoked if the occasion arises, but in eight years no resort to such measures has been necessary. Yet the cutting of tutorial appointments is comparatively rare, far less than the cutting of courses. The majority of concentrators, well over 60 per cent, seldom fail to meet their engagements. The tradition of tutorial work has become firmly established...
...indications are that there will be more fun-for Mr. See is writing a book on education. His style has the rare naivete of Rob Benchley (dramatic critic of Life), and he should go far as a humorist. Meanwhile he has lost a great opportunity to enhance his reputation, by refusing to debate the question of female intelligence with a woman...
Goldwin Smith's "The United Kingdom", a political history, was published by Macmillan at $2.50 is offered during this sale for $1.20. There are two full sized volumes bound in one in this book, constituting a rare...
...Cathedral" is not a "modern" novel in the sensuous way that that term is so often used, but it is a novel that every thinking man should read, and digest. It is a book to make men think--a quality rare enough in the novels of today...