Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until 1928. The Danish nobility, of whom no more are created, have no ipso facto place in the Landsthing, but, on the other hand have the peculiar privilege of passing on their titles to all their sons and daughters, so that the extinction of a Danish noble house is rare in the extreme...
White Elephant. From the tar north city of Chiengmai glad news sped that there had been born that rare marvel, a true white elephant, all pinkly pristine and signifying that the gods view with favor the ascension of pert brown-eyed King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March...
...great work collecting money to make that work possible. Some method should be provided, whether by Congressional appropriation or otherwise whereby this organization shall be forever relieved from the unfitting position of a beggar supporting itself to great extent on private gifts. It is one of those very rare activities which deserve unlimited endowment from a country overflowing with wasted wealth...
...moments of research. There the real character of the teacher appears. Things he cares most about are conveyed to the student from his love of scholar ship and his devotion to new-truth. The students catch a glimpse of the divine fire and are themselves inflamed. Yet how rare is the provision in the American college curriculum for such movements. It is, I believe, largely because the students themselves, judging by the superficial qualities of the professor's attitude, remain indifferent to the things about which he cares the most, that these contacts are so seldom obtained...
...Professor Burkhard for his lecture in German 26a this morning, might lead one, for a moment, to suspect that this course deals with aspects of the modern musical show, a little reflection will make it evident that this is not the case. Yet Professor Burkhard's lecture presents rare attraction to a student vagabond. Not only is it given by a deep and thorough student of romanticism, but in addition it deals with one of the most interesting phases of the movement which exercises most of its influence in Germany through the un versifies...