Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passage of ultraviolet light (see your good footnote), it is no better than any well-lighted U. S. schoolhouse, and your report is inane. You give as The Motive "to promote health ;" you give as The Story an esthetic appreciation of the structure. That is deceptive logic-very, very rare in TIME...
...spark of genius to conceive of a steamboat, a cotton gin, a dynamo or an incandescent lamp and numerous other machines and processes on which so much of life today depends. Nothing in the world is so potent with possibilities as a new idea, and really new ideas are rare and the product of genius. (Not all inventions are of this class. Though I occasionally enjoy Life Saver candies, I do not believe that the invention of the hole in the candy deserved the reputed reward of a million dollars, or that the invention of a blue stripe on kitchen...
...rare industries in which the horse has not yet become inactive is that of peddling milk. Accordingly there were milk wagon horses; also ice cream wagon horses; commercial delivery horses-all briskly dragging their owner's wagons painted with gaudy signs...
...season. No words were too dear for her then. The late Henry Theophilus Finck of the New York Evening Post has said: "She had everything in her favor that a fairy could possibly bestow on an operatic artist: a beautiful and amazingly expressive face; a voluptuous figure, with a rare grace of movement; a voice which, at its best-and it usually was at its best-was as lovely, sensuously, as Patti's and infinitely more soulful; a skill for acting realistically which amounted to genius, often making one forget the superlative beauty of her voice; and the supreme...
...ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare gem, or like that other, humbler artisan who enriches--but then that is beside the point...