Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took Mr. Rosenwald by the hand and, without asking, correctly stated the name of his dead mother: "Augusta Hammerslough Rosenwald." Dr. Goodkind thought of the medical term for a rare disease, a term occupying several lines of newsprint. Mr. Khaldah concentrated, could not pronounce the term but spelled it out correctly. Mr. Swift was informed of the date and place of his father's birth. Dr. Breasted wrote out a sentence in Arabian and hid it. Mr. Khaldah recited it sight unseen. He stood 20 or 30 feet from his marveling audience and drew for them geometrical designs they...
...walked and lain long beside it, learning over and over the sea's "immemorial yearning" until it has become her own. Rest from restless beauty is her desire. Her best poems are fragile meshes of silence and loneliness, written on beaches, cliffs and sea-hills, at the days rare moments and the year's empty seasons. Then, she says, I shall gather myself into myself again...
Examination of the backgrounds of other Chicago servants, to discover how rare "foreigners" were, revealed the following birthplaces and birthdays...
President Eliot's leadership was not due to his impressive personality nor to his office, although these were advantages of which he made good use. His insight and his judgment so often compelled respect that men came naturally to depend on him for guidance. And he had the rare quality of greatness that caused him to change his mind when he felt that his opponents were right, as they sometimes were...
...haired man with his full, straight lips, and the direct expression in his eyes, the eloquent sage, the national oracle, who concerns the undergraduate to come. The forces that made him this were perhaps the same that aided him throughout his whole career, but it was only in that rare fruition of life which it is given to so few men to enjoy that Eliot could round his philosophy as completely as he rounded his life...