Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forced to swap half a dozen celluloid monkeys for that rare toy, an orangutan, and later obliged to supervise personally the manufacture of a duckbill, Mr. Taylor now claims that the present menagerie reposing in the corner of his workroom contains more different animals than any other of its kind. Tiny barns contain the various types of cattle and sheep and the great number of other animals stand in typical positions on the floor...
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...
This enthusiasm may have been natural exuberance at the rare spectacle of a Harvard score board discarding the simple arithmetic of football games and adopting the higher mathematics of thermometers, stock tickers, speedometers, and voting machines. But its thunderous expression, in cheer after lusty cheer, lasting throughout the game, was certainly due to the capable direction of the four energetic squads of cheer leaders selected on a competitive basis for the first time in Harvard's athletic history. Seldom have Harvard cheer leaders shown such energy, such ability, or such scrupulous attention to the long-neglected courtesies of the football...
...TIME, June 22 et seq.), last week crossed icy Davis Strait to Jack Lane's Bay, Labrador. The Bow-doiris forecastle was awash, a 400-lb. drum of gasoline had been swept overboard, a rare specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings...
Signor Mussolini does not read his history in vain. Having profited so much already by the study of Imperial Roman methods he is celebrating the third anniversary of his advent to power by delving into archives of the Middle Ages. He has brought the policy to light again, with rare appreciation of the spirit in which that official was originally created...