Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jahrbuch der deutschen Dantegesellschaft, 1869, ii, 99-150, contains a paper worth reading by Scartazzini on "Dante's Vision im irdischen Paradiese," followed, pp. 157-168, by one on the same subject by L. Witte...
...Ball, who went from here to the University of North Carolina, started there the idea of a cooperative society. The society was organized and a stock of goods worth $2,000 was bought from the Harvard society. The society continues to supply the one in North Carolina. It has also sold the University of North Carolina $1,000 worth of books for its library, bidding for the contract against several New York firms. A large wholesale business is carried on with colleges all over the country. All this outside business helps to increase the dividends of the members...
...regard for the great principles of health can not help but get most invaluable ideas from this veteran trainer, the actual results of whose system have proven again and again their true worth...
...loftiest trees, well out of sight. And lastly, there is nothing in the tropics which can compare with the ever fresh surprise of the miracle of spring, even as it is seen in our austere and whimsical New England. Our plants, growing under such severe conditions, are well worth studying just as examples of organisms which have endured the hardest of all times...
William Edward Hutton made the second speech for Harvard. He claimed that the evils which exist have no vital connection with a broader franchise. He cited Berlin with 13 per cent. of men of voting age denied the franchise and New York 26 per cent. He claimed that $500 worth of property or the paying of annual rent of $250 would be a reasonable qualification amount...