Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost perfect as entertainment. Movie directors would be doing a real service if they would unearth more pictures of the type of "Three Live Ghosts". Like good modern novels, they are very pleasant pastimes, even though we hesitate to claim for them immortality. Unfortunately they are just as rare as good modern novels...
...warn you all not to believe sensational books or biased newspaper articles,'' said the Chief Justice severely. "A great many of the people I met, both in public and in private, possessed rare culture and charm. I was impressed by the refinement of American home life. I was particularly impressed by the respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers...
...Governing Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. The "emergency" was of course the October-November break. The man was Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, acting as president while E. H. H. Simmons was honeymooning. Whitney qualities praised in the resolution were "courage, resourcefulness, and sound judgment . . . rare qualities of leadership." Oldsters, saying this was the first instance of personal praise by the Committee, wagered Mr. Whitney will be elected president of the Exchange next May. President Simmons, now serving his sixth term, had not desired his last nomination...
...near approach of two stars is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. It is calculated to occur in our galactic system not oftener than once in a thousand million years. The actual collision of two stars would be a much more uncommon occurrence. Even so, however, since the astronomer measures time in terms of ten millions of millions of years, it is probable that many planetary systems exist throughout our galaxy and the innumerable other galaxies that are strewn throughout space...
...Business Administration the "spotless town" of the forgotten advertisements made actuality by five Baker millions; Soldiers Field, Higginson's gift its stadium the focus of all conscious competition with other universities; the Medical School and its beneficent brood of hospitals the Arnold Arboretum miles away hundreds of acres of rare and exquisite shrubs of all possible varieties; even in Arizona astronomers observer the invisible planetary phenomena. The circle widens. But at the Center is the Yard where Harvard College has its being. It was the origin of the University, it is still the core...