Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most prized bibliographical treasures in the world is a Gutenberg Bible. The first edition is four times as rare as a first folio of Shakespeare. Last week in Manhattan a perfect copy of this Bible was auctioned off for $106,000 to Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach...
...picture became a fact, they planned a general library, certain special laboratories and a central administrative body to deal with matters (for example, honors examinations) of community interest and value. They pictured a growing milieu of teachers in congenial surroundings, with wieldy groups of students and a rare chance to test and compare pedagogical theories. They saw undergraduate scholarship spurred by competition among the colleges . . . athletics at home . . . university breadth for small college thought ... a metropolis of student-villages...
...cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore at Cape Town while the Ohio was dry-docked. Seizing rare opportunity, a correspondent wrote: "Like a crowd of ghosts the sailors lowered the landing launch. They suddenly stopped when the machinery made some squeaks. The officers rushed forward with oil cans...
...exploring in African jungles he had acquired some mysterious disease. Yet it caused him no pain. Only, his little toes were acquiring a dead look. Leprosy? "No," declared examining surgeons called in for consultation. They retreated back to their student-day recollections, remembered the syndrome of an obscure, rare disease called by U. S. Negro slaves "ainhum," a term since absorbed into medical terminology...
Through years of instruction, he has proved himself in the words of President Lowell, "a teacher with a rare gift for making delight in literature contagious." His guidance ought to fulfill the promise that English A is to grow into a maturer course...