Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...99th lap, Duke pulled his Novi Special into the pits for a scheduled fuel stop. As compressed nitrogen blew fuel from a drum into his tank, the precious seconds ticked away. Before his tank was full, Duke roared back into the race. About 86 laps later, while battling for the lead, Duke Nalon was caught by the nightmare that has haunted motorists since the day of the linen duster...
...season of Protestant get-togethers was in full swing last week. Everywhere there was talk about church mergers. Protestants showed an increasing awareness of how much they have in common; they also displayed a stubborn, but understandable, concern over what they held precious in their own creeds...
...Evil One, I know what that expression designates just as clearly as I know what is designated by the word God. I draw his outline by the deficiency of each virtue ... he is more intelligent than I, everything he thought up to hurl me toward evil was infinitely more precious, more specious, more convincing, more beautiful, more clever than any argument I could have brought up to persevere in honor...
This stumbling block of precious independence is in fact a false and unnecessary obstacle. Change in the method of learning does not imply that students must be told what to learn. Effective or ineffective educational methods can be used with Eliot or with Hutchins. In fact, more interference from a central college authority is not equal to better education...
...recent April showers have proved a double boon to the Crimson in its fight for a rebound season. They have a hard, fast-drying surface which snubs rain, and storms have only kept the team indoors for the day of the weather onslaught itself. In the past, precious practices had to be cancelled for days after a shower. Also, they have given Barnaby a chance to work up a ten-man squad for the Yale match on good courts. Charlie Ames, Loring Briggs, Hilliard Hughes, Howie Swartzman, and Jack Frey are at present pounding the extra surfaces with...