Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, although not usually inclined to be sympathetic with the frailties of man or hippopotamus, have come to share this insight of Poet T. S. Eliot. As a result, the world last week was the richer by one of the rare instances of East-West cooperation in years, and may soon be richer by one baby hippopotamus...
...eighth president of Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...
Polish movies are rare things in Boston and no people can tell better than the Poles the accounts of German atrocities in the last war. You won't be able to pick up much of the Polish parts in the dialogue, but even without the words you'll be able to feel the strong sentiments of pathos and tragedy that mark such a universally odious subject...
...majority of the tenants, it is expected, will not be connected with the University. The University's chief motive for replacing rare flora with houses was to make money...
...centuries, translators in more than 100 languages have proved how right the old knight was. English translations of Don Quixote have either been pieced together by literary archeologists who treat each word as a rare old bone, and with admirable patience assemble them into a dead monster; or have been cribbed by publishers' hacks from French translations, with an eye on the dictionary and an ear to the gallery...