Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of the Belgian Congo was recently ordered by the Home Government to collect an "income tax" of 20 francs a head from the natives of the Congo. The task looked impossible. But the Governor is resourceful. According to reports he directed the natives to capture and bring in rare butterflies especially the kind called Urania. He gives them a tax receipt and then retails the insects for about 30 francs apiece to collectors in Europe...
...Naturalist of the expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies...
Nevertheless, at a luncheon of notable physicians in Manhattan last week, the company focused its interest upon leprosy. William H. P. Anderson, General Secretary of the American mission to lepers, spoke of the developments in treatment, hinted that in a few years leprosy would be "as rare as yellow fever." Said...
...reported that slavery is practically wiped out except in the Mohammedan countries of the East. A peonage system of approaching it exiss in parts of Latin America. Abyssinia is the Christian country where it is still practiced, but progress has been made there towards its abolition. Slave raiding is rare except on the borders of the Sahara Desert. In Arabia many girls making pilgrimages from the East are seized and enslaved...
...rare thing to discover a genuine business leader who will convey to the public unpleasant truths about his particular industry. Mr. Insull has just as much faith in the public utility business as-say-Judge Gary undoubtedly has in the steel industry. But he realizes that there is such a thing as overoptimism, and he has courage enough to state so openly when occasion demands. Secretly, he must be amused to witness the reaction to his remarks of the numerous Pollyannas of U. S. business...