Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the beef. We've never been this way before. It's all a pack of lies. But tonight the waiter brought us some red, red beef. It looked quite angry or embarrassed, two conditions which induce rudd' ness. But the white-coated Ganymede quieted our fears. "It's rare, not very well done," he vowed...
...time is up. Gentlemen, like the beef, this is a rare column...
...Quadagnini, Montaguana, Gofriller . . . played in massed unison by the great string quartets of the U. S. - Flonzaley, Pro Arte, Lenox, Vertchamp, with four bass viols in accompaniment. Under Mr. Rich's direction the musicians poured harmonies and melodies from Purcell's Suite in C Major. Into the rare acoustic treasuries of the huge auditorium later sounded the Mozart D Major, Saint-Saens's Le Deluge, Debussy's G Minor, Veracini's Concerto Grosso Bel. No medieval potentate had ever summoned forth such jeweled volumes of song in palace or cathedral. Next day the temple...
...athletics that are at fault; it is the over-emotionalized over-dramatized intercollegiate spectacle that has been made of football. But obviously there is here no need for funds. With very rare exceptions it more than pays its own way. The athletics that particularly need appropriations are those which attract little or no publicity, which are often under, rather than over-emphasized. These are the smaller major, the minor, and the intramural sports which affect the general student body and are therefore to be encouraged since physical training has properly become a recognized part of the college curriculum. Furthermore, general...
...presence of the applicant that in the last analysis the matter was up to him and he might refuse at season regardless of evidence submitted to him. He added that their policy was to refuse all applications for entrance outside the quota, and to make only rare exceptions...