Word: preciously
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...Arsenal doubtfully doled out 2-4 pieces of precious optical glass, told the amateurs to go ahead and try. The amateurs failed to hit the mark at their first attempts. Porter, Ingalls & Person thereupon lined up So top-notch amateurs, named them "The Gang," sent them instructions, set up a system of postcard communication, soon began to deliver roof prisms by the thousand...
Many a big war-converted corporation was holding its precious air time with an institutional program designed merely to keep its name alive for the day when it would again have something for public sale...
...Deal was not planned in the minds of brain-trusters, and still less in Mr. Roosevelt's mind; indeed, there was precious little planning about it. ... Much of it was improvised to meet current agitations and demands...
...hold of nationalism is still deep in the people. In no nation on earth-least of all in any powerful nation-are the people yet prepared to trade their precious nationality for true world citizenship, to trust their welfare to the other peoples of the globe...
...depends on her merchant fleet, which must bring back Jap loot from Asia and the East Indies, transport Jap supplies to extended island bases. In one of his most optimistic moods, ebullient Navy Secretary Frank Knox last week told the U.S. public that one-third of Japan's precious cargo shipping had been sunk...