Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Real and Rare...
Thank you for the Liver Diet recipes which arrived this morning and were promptly passed on to the young lady who is "doing time" on liver. I believe this to be an instance of service, real and rare...
...rare to give it a common name, but it can be described as a large grey-black fish that resembles the common sunfish, and it has large eyes, large fins, is two and a half feet long, and weighs 20 pounds...
...battlefield more severe than that of love permitted him to anticipate only one bravery more. Charles Orbison, waiting, in the warm sun, for death to reward him for the wounds he had suffered in the War, saw Claire Ambler and heard her sing once, beautifully and out of a rare simplicity. Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries she was distributing between a young Fascist and a pair of shady young Neapolitan noblemen. Suddenly understanding that death would be more terrible for Charles Orbison had he her love as well...
Professor of Economic History wrote: "No one can fill, in the University and in the nation, the place left by Professor Coolidge. He was a great scholar and trainer of scholars in the wide field of modern history. He was a great librarian, building up, with rare catholicity of interest, a treasure-house and working-place for scholars. Here I wish especially to bring tribute to him as the great editor of "Foreign Affairs". When the Council on Foreign Relations established this journal, Profesors Coolidge was chosen as its editor because he was preeminently qualified by life-long preparation, recognized...