Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very 'dog,' that's a fact." Butterfield's eyes opened in amazement, and he determined to see those dogs as soon as possible, for such a canine phenomenon was new to him - an animal that ate note-books and could pull two men in a cart was an animal worth seeing. Shortly after this, as the car settled down to a steady jog on the other side of the railroad track, after unloading several members of a colored colony, he began to look around him and take notice of the other passengers in the car. There was the usual young...
...fellows at the theatre, owing to some extent to the many different attractions outside of the play house that come with this time of the year, but mainly to the fact that the dramatic season is already pretty near over, and consequently the theatres present hardly anything worth seeing. The "World" still holds the boards at the Boston, so that in obedience to the immutable laws of time, the ballet is growing perceptibly older...
George Herbert Eaton, "The Worth of Symbols." - [F. W. Robertson...
...account of its general spirit and excellence, is the Williams Argo. It certainly is the most neatly formed, the best written and the most carefully edited of any of the papers printed at other colleges. The Tiger and Spectator are on sale in Cambridge. Would it not be worth the while for its editors to place the Argo on sale here also? Of course the standard of interest for the general reading public in such matters is not the standard of local value and interest. In that respect all these papers are possibly excelled by others...
...delivered. At the end of the year, if bound together, they make a most valuable book. Last year the notes in the course on the constitutional history of the United States cost $8.50, and to any student of American politics a bound copy of them today would be worth fully that amount...