Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adding to its already large collection of rare silver, the Fogg Museum has acquired a group of distinguished pieces from English makers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The new pieces have been given as long time loans by Archibald A. Hutchinson who has been one of the chief contributors to the collection. A tea and coffee service has also been presented by Richard Sears which illustrates well the fine types of the late Georgian style...
...numbers by Scarlatti, a Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E flat in which Madame Novaes is to be the soloist, and Kammermusik No. 1 by Paul Hindemith, modern German composer. This concert, which is to be the first in a series of three, is certainly of a rare and completely admirable type and shows great ingenuity in program construction...
Commented Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach, Manhattan pneumotherapist who is largely responsible for the use of oxygen to treat weak hearts (TIME, April 6, 1931): "Accidents from fire in oxygen tents or in oxygen rooms are extremely rare. When they do occur, they are caused by some reckless action on the part of the patient, such as lighting cigarets. This man must have lit a cigaret. The theory that a spark might have flown from the motor over to the oxygen tent is untenable...
...helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel, suggested payment of an export tax of $150 Mexican ($45 U. S.). Then, just as she had given up hope, the huffy officials consented to let her take her rare prize home on the President McKinley...
...Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness had to rent a room, sleep there seven nights...