Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Records of automobiles struck by lightning are rare. Says an international authority on thunderstorms, Sir George Clarke Simpson, Director of the British Meteorological Office, people riding in an automobile with an all-steel top are practically immune from lightning, even though the automobile itself may be struck. The movement of the car does not affect its chances of being hit. Safe rule in a thunderstorm: drive slowly...
...Because the marble-smooth salt in the early morning is marble cold, cools friction-heated tires, lessens a driver's greatest fear: blowouts. Meteorologists also claim that a greater speed can be attained in the rare air of Bonneville (4,300 feet above sea level). A speed of 345 m.p.h. at Bonneville would be only 293 m.p.h. at sea level...
...Organizational disputes between unions are rare because of rules laid down within the Trades Union Congresses, based on the premise that no union has an exclusive right to organize any class of worker...
...More rare and more deadly is the second stage, known to physicians as coccidioidal granuloma. Any time after an attack of "valley fever," about one patient in 500 develops symptoms of tuberculosis: enlargement of lymph nodes, lesions of the bones. Large ulcers develop all over the body and after extended suffering, 50% of the patients die. Medicine can offer them no help, for doctors know little of the course of the disease...
Walker identified it as a pangolin, a rare, highly-specialized, prehensile-tailed mam mal which eats ants and termites. Because the natives of southern Asia think that it catches ants beneath its scales while pre tending to be asleep, they look upon it as a highly untrustworthy animal. According to one legend, whenever the pangolin answers a call made by a man in the forest, the man quickly meets with disaster. So far as Mr. Walker knew, Pandora is the only pangolin in captivity, certainly the only...