Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after acquiring the Raeburn, Huntington spent $6,000,000. By his death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...
That was June 1939, and one of the real differences between then and now is that in 1939, while the people of Europe made the most of the precious days of peace, the U.S. and the world were primarily interested in what Europe's statesmen were thinking, planning and doing. Today the U.S. and the world are more interested in what the people of Western Europe are thinking. What the Italian voters do in their April 18 elections, for instance, is far more important than almost anything a Western European statesman might do at this time...
...cinnamon-red height of Caué rises 4,000 feet sheer from the lush green hills of Minas Geraes. It is a landmark that on a clear day can be seen by an airplane pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...
Pass Me That Gin, Son. What is there about these two birds that makes them so much more precious than the average broiler? Well, Father Haydn's chick is absolutely enormous and interminably long-and the public loves to get good poundage for its money. It is primarily what is called a think-chick, and its little crop is crammed with quotations from Walter Pater, W. H. Auden, Machiavelli, Engels, and even Max Lerner...
Under the laws, each day of eligibility will be worth close to 35, Munro explained, but a veteran who draws on the excess charge forms will lose many precious days of eligibility with a return of only...