Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also means that Nassau men are shut off from the outside world and the politics and girls thereof. Princetonians are notoriously blase to national affairs-their only political club is a half-hearted Liberal Union-and girls are rarer on the campus than born-rimmed glasses...
...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
...Napoleon's greatest battles. Fèvre has never ridden in the subway or a bus; he steadfastly refuses to switch on an electric light or read a daily paper. "What men call progress," he says bitterly, "is nothing but a sham. Transportation has improved, but noble sentiments become rarer...
Rarely has a show reached its 100th-performance milestone in spite of a hostile press. All for Love is rarer still: it got there in spite of an apathetic public. Its only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread ever seen on Broadway.* In the year since Farrell took a leave from his Albany chain factory, he has spent more than $2,000,000 plunging where others fear to tread...
...funny scenes give it a grisly monotony; the book suggests a tired master who seems to be trying to see how far he can go in revealing his contempt for his large and profitable audience. Out of it, however, Scott-King emerges as one of Waugh's rarer characters...