Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Evans, publisher of the Valley Vigilant, weekly newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was sentenced last week to three months in the county jail, fined $100. His offense: criminal libel of a County Commissioner during a political campaign. Libel convictions are rare...
...Especially rare book collecting...
Spring came, spring went, summer came, summer went, while Physician Loring preserved an impenetrable silence. Last week he issued one of his rare, terse statements. He announced he would enter the textile business, outstanding and lamentable sick man of the U. S. industry...
...Rock River estate of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for Illinois Congress-man-at-large, her Holstein herd graze. Prof. George W. Cavanaugh of Cornell University secured permission to subject those Rock River cows to an experimental diet. Since July11 they have become epicures among cows, familiar with rare seasoning. Their ordinary feed has been powdered with seaweed rich in iodine...
Forty years ago, when Justice Holmes was Judge Holmes, he told his conception of the law in words of rare beauty...