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...aged. Only once again did the world hear of her. That was on May 31, 1935, when 67-year-old Avril emerged to dance once more at a Toulouse-Lautrec ball. Wrote the old lady in 1937: "In this retreat I have nothing to keep me company but my precious memories...
...Henry Kaiser and many another shipbuilder has shown, can be mass-produced; 2) the Liberty takes an old-fashioned reciprocating engine, easier and quicker to produce than the delicate high-speed turbines that must go into destroyers and some escort vessels. Geared turbines are at the moment more precious to the U.S. Navy than diamonds...
...ship farm machinery to England, when supplies were desperately short here? Because, said Mr. Stettinius, every piece of machinery produced eight times its volume in food-and shipping space was precious...
...issue of the Reader's Digest! You just can't imagine how much real pleasure it has given me. When I come home, tired and hungry and irritable from standing over a hot record all day, I just sit right down and start to chew on some of those precious little pearls of wisdom that drop from its pages. And do they stick in my throat? Do they choke me? Why, I should like to state right here and now that they most certainly...
...Candidates told gruesome tales of all-day slavery and all-night vigils, telling at type-writers, inking rollers, carrying presses and liontype machines but that's all over. You'll come out tomorrow night drink your beer, and start out fast with careful guidance making the most of every precious minute...