Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years, for research connected with the determination of atomic weights through the density and compressibilities of gases. Results obtained with oxygen and helium have proved very valuable, and it is hoped that in the immediate future the studies may include experiments on hydrogen, nitrogen, and some of the rare gases...
...Ford, Hon. '07, Lecturer on historical manuscripts, for further researches connected with rare Americana in London and Paris, and American documents in the Public Records Office at London...
...books, written some years ago for young people. They were given to Miss Lowell, it appears in her childhood, and kept until today when they have attained a considerable value. Single copies from the series are frequently to be found, but an entire set is believed to be extremely rare...
...morning the cabinet had had a sitting, and then at the lunch hour the Premier had rushed off to call on the Governor General, Lord Byng. All afternoon there was another session of the Cabinet. And the evening saw still a third session-a very rare event indeed at Ottawa-lasting until just ten minutes before Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King had to rush to catch his train. Naturally he was tired...
Colored Cats. Long and learned reports were read upon the inheritance of fur color in cats. A mysterious story had got abroad that zoological gardens, cat clubs, museums were anxious to obtain specimens of three-colored cats, such as the rare tortoiseshell, black and yellow hybrid. Result: floods of letters from people with tricolored felines, many ingeniously complicated breeding experiments...