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Imprimis, color: avicula margaritifera, the pearl oyster, is a capricious mother. Sometimes her offspring is white, sometimes pink, yellow, blue, black, but unless they are grotesquely malformed, all are precious. In the Far East, cream yellow is the favorite tint because it shows to excellent advantage against the Oriental skin. Similarly, Westerners prefer pink pearls; not a deep pink, which is almost invariably muddy, but a pale rosée. Color can best be examined by placing the pearl on white cotton under a strong natural light...
Among countries where wine is considered less precious than cash are France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Hungary, Tunis and Greece...
...half so precious...
...college competition is not shown only in a dispersion of candidates over a wider field, and segregation of a few into many places, but by the aggregate number of aspirants for posts in the activities. This is smaller than five years ago. Not only are the students becoming more precious and demanding in their choice, but they are becoming increasingly chary of sharing any part of themselves with an organization, just for a ribbon to stick in their coats. They are not grinds, or fly-by-nights; they simply know that they are going to do what they like...
Traditions the series of games had accumulate made it a precious one to the public and the display attached to the annual meeting of the two Institutions made it one in which they took a keen personal interest. The rupture between the two due to a dispute of whose merits few laymen could judge was bound to create a feeling of resentment, and no matter now unwarranted this may have been, its ending cannot, but meet the general approval...