Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taste for architecture and a liking for the decorative arts. As a boy, he made a candlestick on his own lathe; as a freshman at Harvard ('27), he had already begun collecting rare Rhodian pottery. At the Met, he became a medieval specialist, presided over the Cloisters, a priceless museum, literally from the ground up: Rorimer preceded the masons by building gunnysack forms to guide them. At the time of his death he was planning the new $5,000,000 American wing...
...irrigation water, a job accomplished too effectively by the existing dams upstream. They are proposed for hydro-electric power to pay for the rest of the irrigation project, but their great size would make them more expensive even in the long run than conventional generating plants. In any case, priceless, spectacular canyon scenery and ecology will be forever lost under lake sediment if the dams are built...
...Viet Nam, the Big E-along with the only other nuclear vessel in the war, the destroyer Bainbridge-won straight A's from the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Both ships' performances had amply demonstrated the tactical advantages envisioned by their planners: high speed and the priceless asset of being able to cruise as long as four years without refueling. Because the Big E is nuclear-powered, says Rear Admiral Henry L. Miller, who commanded the ship's task force until mid-February, she "can do just about everything better, easier and faster...
...that can carry 250 people; Boeing plans soon to start building a 500-passenger 747; and Lockheed intends to market a 700-seat commercial version of the C-5A in the early 1970s. Saving just one of those planes would easily save $10 million worth of airplane and a priceless amount of humanity-which would make almost any effort to improve an already excellent safety record a worthwhile investment...
...Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose granite crest the great auk passed into extinction. Russell effectively translates for nonislomanes the mystical tug of the secret places offshore, "priceless monuments of primeval earth...