Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mary Anderson and Lotta are worth anywhere from $300,000 to $500,000, and they are spoken of as lovely girls. They have charming figures...
Late in the afternoon last Sunday, and probably also on other days, the frog-pond in the Botanical Garden was worth visiting. Multitudes, almost myriads, of frogs either sat along the margin of the pond, sunning themselves, or leaped and plunged and frolicked in the shallow water, showing as unmistakable signs of fun as kittens show in their play. Their actions were very droll, and the shrill chorus of little voices that grew in number as the sun sloped to the west, was extremely pleasant to hear. They are, perhaps, of the same stock as the ancient Greek frogs...
...operative Society has sold over $350 worth of tennis goods this spring...
...times, with more industry than true journalistic insight. The Philadelphia News is another paper that has a weekly department of college notes. The Boston papers of late years, it is well known, have been devoting much attention to college news and particularly to Harvard matters; several indeed find it worth their while to employ special college reporters. The Post publishes daily Harvard College notes; and the college articles of the Sunday Herald and Globe are already famous among their student readers...
...defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue: "The world without cares for nothing but politicks and commerce and news; it is a money-making, quarrelsome world of vandals; it cannot understand our Latin nor our Greek, and it thinks our English not worth reading; it scorns our literature, and, if it have any regard for our science, it is because it teaches to steer ships and to print newspapers." A miserable world truly; and let us rail on Lady Fortune in good terms, in good set terms, my poor Jaques. An important statement...