Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take pictures of the entire squad as well as pictures of individuals in action. If it is possible to arrange it, these pictures will be shown in conjunction with the others. Since the film of the national stars was taken with a special high speed camera of a rare make, it is entirely possible to slow the picture down to such an extent that every movement of a man running the hurdles and going over the bar in the pole vault and high jump can be clearly discerned...
...robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that now they are called classic, then has that individual done his mind and himself a grave injustice. He has denied himself the opportunity to cultivate his mind by the infiltration of rare thoughts, and to harvest the luscious vintage of fine old speech and bottled sunshine from the vineyards of fiction by the world's fine masters of literature...
...Memorial Room of the Widener Library there is now on exhibition a notable collection, formerly owned by Mr. Widener, of first editions, manuscripts, and letters of the British romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron. Two very rare and much sought after books in the show-cases are Coleridge's "The Watchman" and "The Friend," little magazines which are interesting to compare with our modern journals. A first edition of the "State man's Manual," with numerous corrections and notes in Coleridge's autograph, is one of the prizes of the collection. Beside these rare editions are various manuscripts...
...Byron collection are a first edition of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," with a lock of the poet's hair inserted between the leaves. Byron's famous satire, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," is an especially rare piece of his early work, as are also his "Hours of idleness" and "Hebrew Melodies." The exhibit is completed by a portrait, manuscripts, and letters...
...Memorial Room of the Widener Library there are now on exhibition a large collection of rare editions and manuscripts of Robert Burns and William Wordsworth. The Burns collection includes the only uncut copy in the original Kilmarnock edition of Burns's poems; a second edition of the Kilmarnock set, of which there are only three known copies...