Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends and students of Dr. Ross have long enjoyed the privilege of seeing his paintings at his house, but this is the first public exhibition of any large number of his pictures that has ever been held, and it thus presents a rare opportunity to see his work...
...great deal of the bitterness against the unions is caused by the popular feeling against picketing and interfering with non-union workers. This is, of course, a great mistake on the part of such unions as allow it, and it is fortunate that its instances are rare. Most of the trouble between strikers and scabs is not with the honest workman desiring only his day's wages, but with professional strike breakers--men who are transported from one strike area to another, and who are paid enormously increased wages to take a sporting chance in a picketed district...
...course any large city produces an occasional lead nickel and is troubled occasionally by a real crime or two; but these latter are very rare in New York since only in the shopping districts and far downtown is there the least likelihood of a criminal being successfully swallowed up in the throng. But even with this New York is not satisfied. Lest a single crime escape unnoticed criminals are now to be arrested in the crowded districts within the new "dead lines" merely on the strength of their past records. Appearance within the proscribed bounds is itself sufficient proof...
...series of daytime performances; the first and second yesterday and Monday; today's at the Plymouth Theatre at 3, and at the Wilbur again on Friday at 3 and Saturday morning at 10.30. The Wellesley Endowment Fund should profit heavily as its reward in giving the city this rare opportunity...
...which the undergraduate wants is inexpensive and easily procured. It has not the rare qualities attributed to the Chinese "bird's nest song", but to the average mortal as a steady diet it is infinitely more attractive...