Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England still holds her supremacy in the field of education, not because of accumulated wealth, reckoned in terms of the busy mart, but because she still maintains these old-fashioned ideas that centuries of experience have pronounced worth while...
Last week, aroused by the public's discovery, officials began to seek to relieve the injustice. Commissioner of Customs F. X. A. Eble visited Manhattan, suggested that duties lower than the regular rate be charged tourists; e.g., that if a man brought in $125 worth of foreign goods, he be allowed his usual $100 exemption and then be taxed, say, 25% ($6.25) instead of, say, 90% ($22.50). The objections to this proposal are that $125 worth of goods at wholesale rates are worth $80 or $85 and should not be taxed at all; that such an arbitrary scaling down...
...hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have won $200,000 from New York bookies betting on a horse...
...Chivekar who had named her in a divorce suit. Born on a Kansas Farm, Sidi Wirt married and divorced Harry Williams, Kansas City newspaperman, married Sugarman John D. Spreckels, inherited his estate, married Prince Chakir in Constantinople in 1923, has figured in Eu- ropean news as Cabaret Dancer Saida Worth, lately as Mme. Saida...
...marksmen were assembled to shoot in the annual National Rifle and Pistol Matches. With prizes worth $40,000 (it is the only sporting event supported by Congress), it is to marksmen what the Kentucky Derby is to turfmen, the Poughkeepsie Regatta to oarsmen...