Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more unfortunate that the College Library should have to pay a penalty for its liberality. By leaving so many books on open shelves in its reading rooms, by not employing more hawk-eyed attendants, and by permitting even comparatively rare books to be taken from the Library. Widener loses thousands of dollars. This in itself is bad enough, but when it be considered that no amount of money will replace many of the books, out of print or for other reasons unobtainable, the annual loss becomes appalling. Thus a lifetime of study and research on the part of a scholar...
...presented by these same Irish players, reimported, the play stirred gallery screams of disapproval at the Manhattan opening night; no scrimmage. Pacific natives in the audience viewed it as a shrewd and often violently flavored vision of other peoples' poor; heard some bad writing, some rare poetry, much cutting humor. Much of the acting was of high excellence. Despite flaws quickly visible to the eye of local playgoers, used to smooth productions of the best of our producers, the Irish players are eventful visitors...
...undergraduate the prospect of a game in Ann Arbor in 1929 may not be particularly exciting. The chances are ten to one that he will not make the trip West to see the game. But to the Harvard graduate of the Middle West it will offer the rare opportunity of seeing his team in action, and for the undergraduate body of Harvard as a whole it is likely to furnish a justification in the eyes of mid-Western critics who are wont to scoff at Harvard's athletic degeneracy and lack of manly qualities...
Fine Arts 1d is one of those large, popular courses, which combines at once most excellent qualities with large disadvantages. Perhaps the most excellent thing about Fine Arts 1d, at least for the ordinary undergraduate, is Professor Edgell; even at Harvard it is all too rare to have the opportunity of hearing a lecturer to whom it is a pleasure to listen. The vast majority of those who come to marvel that merely human flesh and blood can speak so rapidly, smoothly, and interestingly, remain for an hour under a species of trance in which scenes from the Mediaeval Renaissance...
...Significance. The author has chosen a most unlikely plot for his novel and accomplished a truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity...