Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efforts in this respect achieve notable success in the current issue. Of course it has no competition on the Cambridge scene and undergraduates seldom achieve the more established reviews, but, even so, to publish a poem as distinguished as Mr. J. R. Agee's "Anne Garner" is a rare bit of luck. It is inconceivable that any editor in his right mind should reject...
Then followed a minute of devotional silence, a real silence rare for the House. Then Dr. Eaton began...
...corporation, he was most circumspect in commenting further on the new fumble rule. Said he: "Admittedly it will help to establish more clearly the superiority of the stronger team insofar as it removes the possibility of scoring through flukes or breaks of that kind. True enough, such cases are rare but important games and even championships have been decided in that...
...opinion on college subjects there is a false assumption which weakens the claim. If educators, magazine writers and college editors themselves lament the lack of judgment displayed by undergraduate journals in a crisis, they are assuming that the opinion of student editors has a definite value. It is a rare thing for the opinion of a student editor to be worth more than that of any undergraduate, and this latter kind of opinion is worth very little...
...invention of photo-graphic processes seemed to displace it. About 15 years ago it came to life again with a new technique, as a medium in, which many creative artists chose to express themselves. Through an expert use of the peculiar qualities of the wood, effects of rare beauty can be obtained, which are distinctly different from those of the etching...