Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transpired that part of a rare art collection owned by Joseph Pennell, American etcher, and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, author, was irreparably damaged by water in the basement of a London warehouse where it had been stored since 1917, when the Pennells gave up their residence at Adelphi Terrace, London, on account of the War, and returned to the U. S. When Mrs. Pennell went over in 1922 to secure the goods, she found 30 out of 56 cases ruined by damp. The loss is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars and can never be replaced...
...lost works included drawings, etchings, zinc and copper plates by Pennell; all the oil paintings he ever made; all the prints of his famous Panama Canal series and the original drawings for various Henry James, Irving and Howells books; rare editions and presentation copies of Stevenson, Kipling and others; drawings by Aubrey Beardsley and various pre-Raphaelites; Mrs. Pennell's unique collection of books on cookery. Fortunately the Pennells' fine collection of Whistleriana had previously been shipped to America. It is now in the Library of Congress, to which they had also presented much of the destroyed collection...
...under the direction of Professor Thomas Harbour '06, associate curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. As soon as the skeleton is cleaned it will be transported to Cambridge where the erecting will be done. It is a hyperoodon 23 feet long, a very rare species found usually in much colder regions...
...Critics. Fanny Butcher in the Chicago Daily Tribune: " A delicate, lovely, fragile piece of literature . . . that very rare thing, a perfect thing in parvo...
Allan Lindsay, a 3-year-old New Orleans boy, has a rare skin disease called xeroderma pigmentosum. The color cells in his skin are too numerous and too near the surface. When the sunlight strikes them they become greatly inflamed and cause painful ulcers. His face is the shrunken visage of an old man. The nurses at the Charity Hospital call him " Grandpop." The disease is fatal unless the sun can be kept away from the skin. A New York electrical engineer devised a protective armor to filter the sun's rays so that only those milder than...