Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Making certainty doubly certain that Dryness was, at least outwardly, more ascendant than ever, were the Congressional returns. As every one knows, few Congressmen vote as they drink. Outspokenly wet Senators are especially rare. Next year they will be rarer. The two wettest-Maryland's Bruce and New Jersey's Edwards-lost their seats. So did Rhode Island's Gerry, Delaware's Bayard. Missouri's vindictive Reed retires and Missouri's Roscoe C. Patterson will...
...There are rare moments in sport when a game becomes more than a game; when chance permits a climax beyond the ability of art, to arrange a climax remote from the pattern of the game and in itself glorious or sad. Such a moment occurred last week at the end of the football game in which Notre Dame played against the Army...
...Widener Treasure Room has at present on display a collection of rare and valuable Oliver Goldsmith manuscripts. These original copies have been placed on exhibition in recognition of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Irish author. The collection of the Treasure Room itself has been supplemented by the loan of several note-worthy manuscripts from the library of A. H. Parker '97. The most interesting books on display are: a very rare first edition of "The Traveller" with an inscription by the author; Horace Walpole's private copy of the "Retaliation," which was printed...
...Fang Lai, Chinese research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, last week reported that he had found a good use for beryllium, one of the rare earth metals. By substituting beryllium oxide for soda lime silicate he has produced a harder, more refractory, more transparent glass than the usual kind. It lets the sun's ultraviolet light pass through...
...announcement. They rushed to the sedate, vermicular-stoned Wildenstein Galleries. There they paid $1 apiece for the benefit of the French Hospital, were permitted last week to maunder through two small rooms hung with 51 modernist French paintings of the first rank. Such a concourse is rare, even among Manhattan opportunities...