Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stifling censorship has made impartial news despatches from Bulgaria rare to the point of nonexistence. Last week the cables reported that Premier Tsankov and his absolutist Cabinet had been forced to resign when the gradually crumbling Government coalition in the Sobranye (Parliament) failed to obtain a majority. It was declared that ten Macedonian Deputies who bolted from the Tsankov coalition caused the Government's fall. Promptly Tsar Boris of Bulgaria evinced his satisfaction at the fall of Tsankov by calling upon that noted Macedonian jack of all political trades, M. Andre Liaptcheff, to form a new government...
Married. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the William Kissam Vanderbilts, to one Earl E. T. Smith of Manhattan; at the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, soon to be replaced by a commercial structure, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Exuberant, the Chicago Tribune reported, "Four gallons of rare perfume were used to spray the interior of the house...
Student criticism is not directed against scholars, but against pedants who are not scholars enough. At Harvard, along with pedants whom any student might name, there are to be found true scholars also--rare men whom study has not ossified. The teaching profession today needs men, not walking dictionaries. True scholars, in addition to possessing profound knowledge, are eminently human and their knowledge is human. This human quality, moreover, can never be measured in terms of a Ph.D. And until American colleges abandon their foolish worship of a Ph.D. and substitute for it a combined standard of knowledge and personality...
...August 1 of last year was on the subject of the geometry of surfaces. Each year the subjects are set six months or more before the date on which they are required to be submitted. The prize is contested for more generally by European mathematicians and it is a rare occurrence for an American to win any kind of recognition...
...labor, he makes an art. Before he tried his hand at business he idled in Europe for two years studying art and architecture. "I never expected to become a professional painter, or to build houses," he says, but he still delights to execute an etching, judge furniture, buy rare books. His office has the air of a scholar's library and in it he has the air of a man with time for anything but business. Newspaper men who interviewed him in the midst of his historic duel with the Morgan interests over Dodge Bros, were astonished to find...