Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death American literature, undistinguished save for its pitiful cleavage to the dust of mediocrity, has lost one of its few bright lights of promise; and the thought of New England, and particularly of the University, has been deprived of an intellect whose power and originality were of a peculiarly rare and precious sort...
Later in the year the explorer went on a long trip in search of the famous, musk ox which inhabit the Polar region and feed on the frozen vegetation which grows in the bare spots of this country. He showed the first moving pictures ever taken of these rare animals, encircled by the Captain's Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young...
Today the harassed seniors, in the throes of divisionals will assemble to watch the birdie from the steps of Widener. After their care-worn faces are exposed to the negative, their lives will be imperilled in the positive. That is, the freshmen will be allowed the rare pleasure of settling old scores with the size of their largess. Silver is a heavier metal than nickel or copper and usually comes in bigger commodities. Surely the privilege of "crowning" the senior is cheap at any price...
...book contains an introduction by Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 and is embellished with a frontispiece facsimile of the court proceedings on the case and several rare maps and views of Detford...
...Nightingale. They say that there are no new stories in the world. Yet there are certainly new tracks on which to run old wheels and these the author, Sophie Treadwell, has found. Her play runs consequently into the rare district where good entertainment lives...