Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after his fifth escape, Fugitive Belbenoit was hiding in the jungles of Panama trapping rare butterflies with a long-handled net to make enough money to carry him to the U. S. Recently he appeared at the offices of the Panama American, told his story which was promptly resold to the North American Newspaper Alliance. As originally written, it began: "I, Rene Belbenoit, who have smelled the odor of human liver being cooked by escaped convicts, who have seen groups of men decapitated every month...
This was revealed in a display of rare historical Harvard diplomas, including the earliest Harvard diploma in existence, the first engraved diploma, and the new Bruce Rogers design adopted in 1935 now on view in Widener Library as a part of the Tercentenary Exhibit...
...garment, which could be red, green, or blue as the student desired, and which resembles the modern smock, was the student costume at the time of the Harvard bicentennial exercises in 1836. It is being shown as part of a Tercentenary exhibit of rare early American books and manuscripts which will continue at the Harvard library throughout the summer...
...true hermaphrodites, which are very rare, there are glands of both sexes, either ovaries and testicles or a mixed gland called an ovario-testis. In a case which came to the attention of William Blair- Bell of England, a girl of 17 began to develop masculine characteristics. Examination disclosed an ovary on one side, an ovario-testis on the other. Eight months after the mixed gland was removed, the girl resumed her feminine appearance almost entirely...
...bitten by a dog, remember this-not once in many thousand times is the dog rabid. Rabies exists, but it is very rare. Of the almost uncountable bites inflicted during a term of years on attendants in the New York City dog pounds, not one caused a case of rabies...