Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Holland related that a Professor Keesom had solidified that rare and undemonstrative gas, helium, by a process not too costly or laborious to be adopted industrially. By some ingenious discovery he had readily reduced the gas temperature to very nearly absolute zero. The significance: solid helium, crystalline and transparent in glass tubes, would transport far more handily than the gaseous form. Helium gas is so tenuous that it would take comparatively few tubes of the solid to fill a dirigible...
...College de France since 1900. He is the exponent of "creative evolution," having tried to show that consciousness is (in principle) coextensive with life. He has argued that intellection is not the highest form of consciousness, since it is but a nebula surrounded by dim intuitions, awareness. He predicted rare discoveries in the subconscious. He has substituted for Darwin's "natural" selection a "creative" selection by which, he thinks, man will ultimately surpass his own nature. The stream of life (elan vital), having entered blind alleys in the vegetable kingdom and insect world, has achieved man in the vertebrate...
...Dominus Apostolicus, according to Signor d' Annunzio, finds his palate so agreeably titillated by "cherry elixir" that plans are going forward to erect a "monastery" near D' Annunzio's exotic home on Lago di Garda (TIME, July 5), in which this rare tipple may be produced for ecclesiastical and lay consumption...
...have been a long while-maybe a year-getting around to it, but some time in the past twelvemonth TIME has had an item which impresses me as rare journalism. [TIME, Oct. 19, SPORT]. It was a little piece, and it ran, according to my copy, like this...
...Strong men are rare. Once in ten years, or twenty perhaps, one rises up, tempered and knowing, warden of an imperious secret. He lasts a little longer or goes a little harder than another before his strength, too, crumbles, and Death takes him. Last week it took Christy Mathewson...