Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gifts from many sources included rare plants from tropical Africa, China, Alaska, Cuba, Italy, Philippine Islands, Crete, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and various parts of Canada and continental United States. Field expeditions gathered specimens in Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Dominica, and thousands of other specimens were acquired by purchase or exchange throughout the world...
Some 4,000 miles from Arequipa, Peru, where the fine under-hairs of the vicuña's fleece bring around $14 a pound, dwells Sylvan I. Stroock. His S. Stroock & Co., Inc. of New York is the leading U. S. manufacturer of rare expensive fabrics-camel's hair, llama, cashmere and vicuña, most costly of all these...
Great is the delight of that diligent ichthyologist. Dr. William Beebe, when his deep-sea dredgings bring to light a perfect specimen of a rare fish. Diligent Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, last week had a similar sensation. Out of the depths of industry he brought wriggling to the surface as tight a little group of patent holders as his monopoly investigation could desire...
Although thousands of lives are saved each year through blood transfusions, errors in blood typing are not rare. Most of the errors are due to faulty technique and interpretation rather than mistaken identification. In the New England Journal of Medicine last fortnight, Dr. William Dameshek, Harvard blood specialist, remarked that he had seen five serious blood-transfusion accidents in Boston hospitals within the last two years. Blood typing is a delicate process, said he, and too often it is left to "poorly trained medical students, poorly trained interns or technicians. . . ." Dr. Dameshek urged State departments of health to jack...
...only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books, The Derrydale Press, like The Limited Editions Club, is a one-man concern. And among publishers, big, affable, 47-year-old Eugene Virginius Connett III, is a rare bird. Until twelve years ago his business was hats. One of the best dry-fly fishermen in the U. S., he is descended from an old New Jersey sporting family which owned one of the oldest U. S. men's hat factories. Publisher Connett liquidated the business during a strike, then sold printing for two years, printed 89 copies...