Word: preciously
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...which did serve to remind me of philosophy work as yet undone and so very quickly did turn the page. Whereupon the haircutter did want to know if by chance an Italian wrote the verses and I did educate him that those precious jewels were first said by a Persian. But this did not interest him and he would not let me alone but took to talking of Mussolini. I was then time for the razor and I felt it behooved me to hold my peace...
...sells at about 35? per lb., compared with aluminum at 20?, copper at 9?, steel at 2?. Other useful ingredients in Sudbury ore are copper, platinum, gold and silver. Roughly speaking, a ton of Sudbury ore yields 95 lb. of copper, 47 lb. of nickel, and fractional ounces of precious metals. On a dollar basis, International gets out of a ton of ore about $16.50 worth of nickel, $8.55 of copper, $4 of precious metals...
...steal our poor hearts, precious...
...Precious Burglar," Bab was a piquant girl in a knee-length skirt and a hat like an inverted pot. She got into all kinds of scrapes, including a burglary. To collegiate hearts in 1920 she came very close to being the Dream Woman. When the play opened in Boston. Edgar Scott, socialite senior from Philadelphia, translated this widespread emotion about Miss Hayes into the following verse for the Harvard Lampoon...
...office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed on, in agony. . . . My adopted daughter [attractive Mrs. Audrey Ulric Pease Fiedler] often converses with my precious mother, the dear one who passed on at the age of 95 less than ten years ago. Mother says to her, 'Charley is so good ... I have a place in heaven but it won't be perfect until Charley comes...