Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many precious weeks spent by the battleship Oregon on the 13,000-mile trip around the Horn during the Spanish-American War-proving to the U. S. the naval necessity of a canal...
...last fortnight, the conductor and passengers of the westbound train from Irkutsk to Moscow gaped in astonishment at the queer old gentleman who sat with a mouldy, grinning skull in his lap. But Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka smiled benignly back. For he had just been presented with the most precious skull of his career, and he was literally not going to let it out of his clutches...
...regular Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting of the Air on "Americanism" last year, concluded that the radio pries disliked controversy, or-more likely-that ostracism from the major network was too precious a jewel to lose from a martyr's crown for half an hour's free time...
...Park for Franklin Roosevelt's books and State papers. Admission to the grounds: 25?. Fumed Republican Dewey Short of Missouri: "Not even immortal Shakespeare or Milton or Wordsworth would have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to ask that a monument be erected to them to house their precious pearls of wisdom before their death. . . . Egocentric megalomaniac!" Minnesota's Republican Knutson suggested the papers be brought to Washington so that future statesmen might learn "how not to run a government...
...notable for enthusiasm than for scholarly caution, some skeptics might have wondered whether the skeleton was really a Neanderthal child or just the luckless progeny of some more recent Mongol wanderer. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, pronounced it a genuine Neanderthal specimen, left no doubt that was one of the most precious childr in anthropology's bare nursery. Dr. Hrdlicka knows...