Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deeper vice of collecting books for the rarity and beauty of their colophons, the nicety of their printing and margins, the occasions and associations of their appearance in book history, the inscriptions and old bookplates to be discovered in them and the lively diversion of nosing out rare editions in the bookstalls of two continents and a pair of foggy islands...
Accustomed to imperfection, the world marvels when a paragon of physical attainment adds to his fame some demonstration of high mental capacity. "Brains and brawn," the newspapers call it, an old story but rare enough to command human interest in a lopsided world...
...High-B" Accustomed to imperfection, the world marvels when a paragon of physical attainment adds to his fame some demonstration of high mental capacity. "Brains and brawn," the newspapers call it, an old story but rare enough to command human interest in a lopsided world...
...year, and to do a much greater amount of tutorial work than is now possible. To prevent abuse of these privileges by the unworthy, permission to work for distinction should be made contingent upon the tutor's recommendation at the end of a student's Sophomore year, and in rare cases at the end of his Junior year, upon proof of merit...
...Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position, but is a private and independent scholar, of a type which is but too rare in this country...