Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born on March 31, 1900. Unlike his elder brothers, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, he is not well known to the public, having been fully occupied with his military vocation since he entered Sandhurst, England's principal military academy. Only on rare occasions during the past few years has he attended any public function in an official capacity...
Ralph Wood pottery which has taken 16 years to assemble is being shown at the Partridge Gallery, London. Statuettes of Benjamin Franklin, Alderman Beckford, George Whitefield, equestrian figures, fantastic animal pieces, Toby jugs, originally sold for a few shillings, but now worth hundreds of pounds, are among the rare models. The Woods were the first English potters to mark their work with their names. Their color secrets have apparently died with them...
...Benito Mussolini is largely a miniature Napoleon, whose gestures he loves to imitate. Of medium height and pale complexion, with lustreless eyes, he controls the Italian ship of state, firmly convinced that his Fascisti are the saviours of his country. In affairs of state Mussolini exhibits remarkable self-control, rare judgment and an efficient application of his ideas to the solving of existing problems...
...Hospital, suffering from internal hemorrhage. One was an obstetrical case, the other a man with a liver punctured in an automobile accident. Blood was drawn off from the sites of the hemorrhages, filtered and reinjected, with citrate to prevent coagulation, in the veins of the arm. The operation is rare...
...appears that one Albert Frederick Calvert was engaged in a conspiracy in which the Grand Duchess was induced to part with some rare pearls...