Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotel rooms are about as rare as football tickets--and almost as expensive for black-market buyers. Leading hotels have been totally sold out for several months...
Since that faraway day more than half-a-century ago, Brown victories over Harvard are about as rare as the visiting French professor who a few years ago didn't turn in final grades to University Hall; and, as you know, when notified in Paris of his error, cabled back to give everybody A's because he enjoyed the class so much...
President Conant will make one of his rare appearances as a presiding officer at a public lecture today, when he introduces Dr. Alan Grogg, Medical Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, at 4 p.m. in Emerson...
This system was an admirable one, and no one has yet found a suitable substitute for it. A few Houses have tried dinner meetings for men in one field of concentration. But these sessions have been rare and usually unwieldly. Forums have also been tried by some Houses, and Dunster House has garnished its forums with sherry and dinner beforehand. But after the forum's speaker has finished at most meetings, the question period is monopolized by the bright boys in the field, so that there is no chance for most of the audience to participate...
...Austria, where traditions never die, the new civil servants still played the favorite national drama - gravely concocting and slowly handing back & forth list upon list of government decrees, which must be "carefully aged, like bottles of rare wine" before they could enter public life. And on the public roads, the previous occupants of these high seats, now paying the price of cooperation with Hitler, were playing the same drama as if they were still in it. "Please, Herr Oberregierungsrat," requested the ex-judge, "will you have the kindness to hand me that shovel?" "With the greatest of pleasure, Your Excellency...