Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgotten boyhood, Connelly so patently lacks grace and deftness that the result is heavy-handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake off the unfortunate claims of fantasy and inserts such a scene as that between a couple of truculent schoolboys, but not often, and these rare seconds are lost in the general mawkishness. Moreover, the thin material of the plot is stretched almost to the breaking-point. And indeed, who are we to say it did not snap altogether somewhere along in the second act." Certainly something was wrong there...
Oklahoma v. Texas. When the U. S. was young, boundary disputes used to be a pastime among the states, but in the present era of federated democracy they are rare. Last week the first decision of the Supreme Court in its autumn session was handed down in the case of the State of Oklahoma, complainant, against the State of Texas, defendant; the United States of America, intervener (No. 6, in Equity). The opinion delivered by Justice Edward T. Sanford established a, neutral line between the conflicting claims...
...Fogg Museum has just acquired by purchase a number of engravings, both old and modern, of considerable artistic and theatrical value, it was announced yesterday. Two rare 15th Century engravings by Martin Schongauer and a fine early Renaissance print by Giovanni da Brescia are among the best of the new acquisitions...
...realm of nicotine, have included such strictly extra-curricular acts as bailing erring wanderers from jail at early hours of the morning and keeping life in the indigent by timely extension of credit. His remarks anent discussed gastronomic situation at the University may therfore be regarded as words of rare wisd m prepart will, the fruit of long experience with students and their ways...
...capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine gender, for modern man has a certain robust fear of dietetics, meals which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less truth in the myth that a graduate student is a rare, rare bird. It is high time that the cafeteria tray be taken from the shelf of Harvard custom...