Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...built in 1845. There was a formal garden in back where few sounds louder than the tinkling of teacups were ever heard. The owner of the Federal-style $250,000 house, Businessman James Platt Wilkerson, had furnished the interior Georgian style. The rooms were filled with art and rare antiques, including a 1790 square piano. Wilkerson was especially proud of his paneled library, called the Bird Room because it housed a collection of wood, metal and china birds. It was a site for refined, elegant living...
...heavy population shifts, the bill, theoretically at least, could bring federal pressure to bear on counties in Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and New York's populous boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. Discrimination of the kind that used to prevail in the South is extremely rare in the North, however, and it is doubtful that the Justice Department will find many violations...
Darkening Clouds. Could such a rare substance on earth be produced in quantity on Mars? Quite probably, say Plummer and Carson. The thin Martian atmosphere consists largely of carbon dioxide; it also contains a trace of carbon monoxide, which may be vented from Martian volcanoes. Under intense ultraviolet radiation from the sun, the two gases could combine into carbon-suboxide vapor. Indeed, the two scientists were able to simulate that very reaction in the laboratory. Their experiment also demonstrated that when the temperature is high enough, the vapor could solidify into a fine granular material, turn yellow and precipitate onto...
Completely new translations of the Bible are relatively rare. Contrary to popular belief, the King James Bible itself was a revision of the Bishops' Bible and the Great Bible of the 16th century, and those in turn had cribbed liberally from the pioneer English translation of William Tyndale and from the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome. In modern times, the scholarly and widely used Revised Standard Version of 1952 was consciously intended to hew close to the Tyndale-King James tradition. Both the excellent 1966 Jerusalem Bible and the ambitious but as yet uncompleted Anchor Bible (13 volumes published...
...Sanders was jammed for the concert, and I am sure that part of what the audience enjoyed so much was the rare sight of an orchestra that looked as though to play Schoenberg and Beethoven was an utterly consuming challenge and really the only important thing in the world at that moment...