Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country where thought is so rare, where it is so delightful when apparent, not even a Cambridge school commissioner should place too little value upon it. He wants his sons to grow up free from ideas on the nature of things; he should fear lest they grow up with none...
...quadrilla" of bullfighters and much of his work savors of the bull ring. In recent years he has been much venerated for his bold technique. The plates of Goya's etchings are owned by the Spanish Government, and while the impressions made in Goya's time are rare and expensive, modern prints from the old and worn plates are struck off in cheap profusion...
...obvious reasons, it is impossible to verify handwritings. And consequently opportunity exists to shield opinions with another's name. Fortunately such forgeries as that of which Mr. G. O. Carpenter Jr. '02 was recently the victim are relatively rare. And one hopes that in the future courageous sponsoring of convictions will entirely replace the cowardice of anonymous forgery...
...ferocious in appearance is Leonor Fresnel Loree, the shaggiest of high railroad executives, that when he makes his rare appearance "hair, mustache and beard awry, thick, bushy brows slanting up from his heavy-lidded eyes" at the New Jersey College for Women or at Rutgers, the young people are always startled. He is a trustee of these institutions, one of the several railroad masters to take interest in academic affairs (see EDUCATION...
Vacations are like beautiful ladies both rare and fleeting, especially when one has a bank account of eight cents, owes three and must eat some time. So I can remember very distinctly just what happened the last week of classes. There was Mencken and Brown and a ball game with more errors from eating peanuts than otherwise--also a Crime column which provoked someone to remark rather caustically, "So the Crimson now goes in for the 'say dearie' stuff." Which last completely floored me, since I had spent weeks of patient research in hunting down that particular epistle and expected...