Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...groomed and all wearing eyeglasses, sat at a banker's long table in Chicago last week. They were George McClelland Reynolds in the centre, Arthur Reynolds (his younger brother) at his left, Eugene Morgan Stevens at his right. The three were patiently posing for their group picture. On rare previous occasions they had appeared in the same photographs, but with other bankers and tycoons. Last week's picture was to have special significance. It symbolized the largest merger of the year, the well foretold consolidation of the Reynolds brothers' Continental National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago with...
Editor Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post) prized rare glassware as he left the Majestic. Particularly proud was he of a drinking glass engraved with the words, "To Reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral." Below, an engraved likeness of the Dean. Below, "In a Bumper...
Solomon Islands. Also hunting for rare birds, among the Solomon Islands only 500 miles from Papua, is Hannibal Hamlin, 24, great-grandson of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first vice president. He heads the Whitney South Sea Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. His present despatches report him having reached the crater of Balbi, active volcano on the northwest coast of the Island of Bougainville. For aids through tropical rains, mud and brush he could get only two Polynesian sailors. Natives, however, did not molest...
...cobalt and nickel, so some diabetics are now being experimentally fed with cobalt and nickel salts. Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples through the plant life eaten directly or indirectly (through herbivorous animals). Example: In Switzerland where iodine is rare, goitre is common. Feeblemindedness and dwarfism are therefore frequent. The recommendation of Dean Jacob G. Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture was that agriculturists go still further in seeking what proper elements their soil lacks and intelligently supply the deficiency in fertilizers...
...ridiculous, wise, exasperating, fantastic, Java-Java's satiric truths mingle with its pack of lies. Sober readers will be shocked, contemptuous, bored; others will enjoy the fun and then forget it. The youthful author also wrote O Rare Ben Jonson...