Word: preciously
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About 9 p. m. the CH-113 settled upon the glacier above the village of Ober Gurgl in the Austrian Tyrol. There the scientists rested until morning beside their deflated balloon, calmly working on their notes, securing precious instruments. A searching party met them toward midday, led them to safety and the world's news spotlight...
...model who posed for Sculptor Carl Bitter when he made the statue, wrote to the New York Times: "I want to take this opportunity to offer my thanks to Mr. Pulitzer for enabling me to again stand exalted-and scrubbed-above the grounds on Fifth Avenue, generously spurting precious, clear water-flush, in these times of dried-up prosperity." Thomas Alva Edison announced that he would give no more of his annual examinations to scientifically-minded boys, no more scholarships. Explanation offered: none. The name of the Yale junior who last month in The Harkness Hoot attacked Yale...
...doubt, know," amiably began President Pei, "silver represents the wealth and savings of more than one half of the world's population. . . . The lack of confidence in silver as a precious metal by the peoples of the world . . . has a great deal more to do with . . . Depression than many are willing to recognize...
...rapier of Light served Albert Abraham Michelson, master precisionist, to parry Death. Two years ago in Chicago he had a paralytic stroke. He was then 76. Life itself, although it was "so much fun," was no longer precious. It would have been easy to drop his guard. But mankind had taken his word for the all important speed of Light, measuring stick of the universe, and he was not positive that his word was good. He must remeasure the speed...
...borrowed money, for his schooling and travels, with amazing ingenuity. He always meant to repay loans, but rarely did with more than gratitude : "I hope the master [who financed most of his vagaries, including steerage passage to San Francisco] will take care of his honorable wife [who sold her precious marriage kimono for his maintenance]. . . . Please remember me to all who have eaten out of the same kettle. With bent neck...