Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These rare, eel-like creatures which have no fins but possess two pairs of fleshy spines were brought over in their cocoons of hard baked mud in which they live during the dry season, often for as long as two years. Only nine inches now, some day these baby specimen may reach the length of five feet...
...light is shed on the Boswell- Johnson-Thrale group and its domestic difficulties by a rare volume of Boswell's "Life of Johnson" fully and acidly annotated by Johnson's friend Mrs. Thrale, later Mrs. Piozzi. (It was on the occasion of her taking this name that Johnson wrote his famous latter beginning, "If I interpret your letter right, your are ignominiously married...
...Roosevelt would have the people read the Constitution for themselves, instead of hearing it as expounded from the Supreme bench. But his must be a rare edition of that document if he really expects the people to find in it the quotation he made from his fireside. He said that the framers gave Congress power "to levy taxes . . . and provide for the general welfare." Most authoritative editions would substitute...
...rare flower of U. S. wealth is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams, better known as Mrs. Harrison Williams, "best-dressed woman in the world." Born in Kentucky some 40 summers ago, she married first Henry J. Schlesinger of Milwaukee's iron-&-coke family, then Manhattan Banker James Irving Bush, finally and most successfully Harrison Williams, 23 years her elder, a quiet specialist in utility finance. To the adornment of their three houses-on upper Fifth Avenue at Bayville, L. I., at Palm Beach-Mrs. Williams has devoted her professional knowledge of porcelains, her flair for the paler sort...
Lucius N. Littauer '78, donor of $2,000,000 for the establishment of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration has presented the University with 2,283 rare works of Hebrew Literature from the H. G. Enelow Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, it was announced last night...