Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaigns for funds absorb much of their attention. . . . It is likely to be much easier to procure an appropriation of five thousand dollars in order to paint a building which is in no great need of paint, than to get authority to spend five hundred dollars upon a rare and costly book which is only needed for scholarly research. It is significant that those who rule our universities sometimes actually think and speak of them after the manner of business enterprises...
...most satisfactory, as is the centre of interest -save for one melodramatic reference to his dead Anne Rutledge. Among the "appealing" details is the token Lincoln had from Rose's small brother and which he concealed in his pocket during the speech — a stiff little fish. With rare sense, the author leaves the lost speech lost...
...Jones succeeds in regaining his lost title of 1923 it will be one of the rare occurrences of golf history. Although there have been champions who have led the field year in and year out consistently these occasiions have been the exceptions that prove the rule that golf titles are no things to be mathematically reckoned, but rather crowns presided over by chance and fate...
...sadly enough, this phenomenon is all too rare at Harvard. In too many courses do lecturers who give the effect of being half-hearted, or ill-prepared, or both, send their students away at the end of the term with a wholesome distaste for the subjects which they teach...
Agrarianism is all the mode in Europe, but it is far more rare as a doctrine of the landowner than as a doctrine of the tenants. This case denotes a change of opinion by part of the oldest aristocracy, for the present Duke of Alba, 17th of his line, is descended from the famous first Duke, who was compelled, at his King's command, to apologize to the Pope for defeating him, whose ghastly "Court of Blood" in the Netherlands was one of the outstanding horrors of the 16th Century and who boasted that he had sent some...