Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herrell's facts: among the women patients of the Mayo Clinic, breast cancer is rare among those who have been castrated, common among those who have...
...begin at 18. One is Mitzi Green, a stripling advertised as 16 who used to be a child star in the films, progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene in The Great Ziegfeld-she repeats in Babes In Arms. Not only because of her physical appearance but because of her propensity for rolling her eyes...
...willing to give. Football, of course, supplies the pennies for the H.A.A. strong box and keeps a large number of people aware of Harvard's existence. Crew has a social prominence which the University would hate to sacrifice, despite the fact that it produces only indirect monetary gains. And rare is the undergraduate who is so indifferent to Harvard athletics that he does not have at least an inkling in his mind of what the major teams are doing. And for this reason it seems not unnatural that sports like swimming and basketball should be promoted to major status...
...native of St. Louis, young Miller is one of the outstanding prospects on the Yardling team in years. He won all his seven bouts against Yale, a rare feat, and then went down to the Freshman Intercollegiates in New York and won a Clemens medal for his excellence...
...highlight of the whole exhibit is several rare editions of the "Compleat Angler", by one Izsak Walton. This 17th century writer had much to do with making fishing a sport rather than an the occupation, and as such he has become the father of a movement which in the spring of the year lures thousands to cast and dream of pairoueaint Walton...