Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which I am paying $50,000 monthly, to seek swordfish and other wild animals in and around the Gulf of California. I had the Oaxaca completely done over to suit my taste. Aboard, our feet will rest on Oriental rugs; our eyes will gaze on rare paintings; our faces will be cooled by electric fans; we will sleep in twin beds instead of berths...
John D. Rockefeller Sr.: "Last week my grandson,* Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, a freshman at Dartmouth College, entered the public eye. With an insolence rare among freshmen, he and his classmate, John French Jr., flayed the fraternity system at Dartmouth. Their letter, which was broadcast by the Associated Press, said in part: The fraternities devote too much time to the task of perpetuating themselves . . . and are in danger of collapsing through pursuit of a false goal...
...average inventor has a hard life and it is a rare instance for him to reap the rewards of his invention as I have done." So said one Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike...
...conceived it at that early time. Unfortunately the building has been somewhat altered throughout its long and varied history, the windows have been lengthened, the entablature is missing on the sides, and the door at the west has been reduced from its original size. It remains, however, an unusually rare and beautiful example of the English Georgian...
...exhibition of rare copies and first editions of Milton's works is featured this week in the Treasure Room at Widener...