Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain changes in the building construction, other officials thought that it might necessitate the dumping of tons of airship ballast water, provisions for which would have to be made. Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky., has developed for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. a mobile plant for the purification of the precious...
...pointed to the gradual slump in buying since last summer, due to the retail hope for lower schedules. Happily he pointed to the accidental under-stocking that has allowed Manhattan jewelers to weather the storm. Confidently he predicted renewed buying by stock-shy investors of safe, eternally valuable precious stones...
...husband and wife were Mr. & Mrs. Lev Davidovich Trotsky. Exiles from Tsardom, they had crossed on the little Spanish steamer Montserrat to live with relatives in The Bronx, were anxious to get to bed. To The Bronx their friend Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin took them, after showing off his precious Library. It was his gold mine, the dingy Golconda from which he was digging material for tome after ponderous tome, his monumental works on Capitalism and Communism...
Last night, however, the Vagabond said farewell for ever to his Memorial Hall rooms. Loading his few precious possessions in the back of an old model T Ford the old rover with little ceremony made his departure from the Yard precincts...
...last week oldtimers got one more startle. An Associated Press despatch from Evanston, 111., reported that a blonde girl had sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets. The first stanza-paragraph rhymed "sundry" with "money." The third did better, rhyming "money" with "sunny." The fifth and final stanza, typical of the rest, read as follows...