Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago fancy pheasants were as rare in the U. S. as the four-volume mono graph on Pheasants, Their Lives and Homes-by William Beebe, published in 1918-22 at $250 per set and now a collec tor's item at $750. Brilliantly-plumed birds could be seen on the lawns of ty coons like Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising...
Ornamental pheasants, which bear a resemblance to their gamebird cousins, are native to most of Asia and parts of the East Indies. Chief export centres are Singapore and Calcutta. Prices range from $10 or $15 per pair for common Goldens or Lady Amhersts to $250 for a pair of rare, shimmering blue-green-gold-copper-crimson Impeyans. Except for a few jungle varieties, the birds are hardy, need nothing in the way of quarters but a brush pile and windbreak...
...King Edward's determination to marry the Woman of the Year (TIME, Nov. 2), in the journalistic history of the great Simpson Story the name of Newbold Noyes ranked high for his intimate reports of his visit to Fort Belvedere ten days before the abdication (TIME, Dec. 28). Rare authenticity attached to this extraordinary series because Mr. Noyes, 45, is the dignified associate editor of the Washington Star, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his father is president of the impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson is his cousin by marriage, and over all the Noyes pieces appeared...
...President's message on administrative management shows rare political courage, as such drastic reorganization as the President's committee had recommended to him would inevitably encounter political opposition...
Characterizing President Roosevelt's message on governmental re-organization as an "act of rare political courage," Arhur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, in an exclusive statement yesterday, declared that the proposals advocated by the President would "meet with the approval of all well-informed students of public administration...