Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife of Mellie Dunham (Henry Ford's famed Maine fiddler), went into the woods near Norway, Me. with a rifle, killed a buck deer, dragged it home, butchered it for steaks & chops. Said she: "When a family in the country needs fresh meat, a rifle in the hand is worth two fiddles...
...Harvard man gets his learning from the careful study of text-books; the Michigan student more often obtains his knowledge from the study of the co-eds in the classroom. And they are worth looking at. Be it known that the presence of several thousand female students at the University of Michigan is the greatest factor differentiating it from Harvard. For there is endless social life within the college. Whereas Harvard men get much of their excitement from rushing in to Boston, and attending the "deb" dances, the Wolverine undergraduate stays at home...
...Chair of Poetry is that the lectures delivered by the holder shall each year be published in book form. The volume of Professor Garrod's lectures will thus be added to those he has already published, 'which include "The Profession of Poetry", and critical works concerning Keats and Words worth...
...committee will not attempt to pick out 'best sellers' or the 'best books of the month'," said Professor Murdock last night. "It will try to intricate some recent works which for one reason or another are likely to prove worth reading. In the annual flood of publications it is very easy for important works of non-fiction to escape attention...
...professors, with the assistance of the Cooperative Society, have decided to continue the idea, started by the book clubs, of listing regularly a certain number of good books. These men will attempt to lead the local reader from the slough of words about him to the primrose heights of worth while reading...