Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial competition of the CRIMSON is the only known way to break into the journalistic game without degenerating into a lowly journalist. Not that I wish to give the impression that editorial writers are over conscious of their calling as artists, but it is worth getting straight at the outset that there is, or should be, a conservative poise intimately associated with editorial writing. Other sides of newspaper work may provide valuable experience in being hurled out of advertisers' offices, stimulate romance through backstage interviews, and develope savor faire during flash light shots, but it remains for the editorial office...
...even greater thrill, for by eating all his breakfasts in the Square, which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just as he is at the peak of pleasure over this triumph, a more talented friend suggests that if he had also eaten all breakfasts in the House, he could have done so at the slight additional cost of seventy cents, for a flat...
...Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10˘ to 25˘ on a dollar, within a few months sold them with a profit of $1,875 on each...
...early American glass, walking sticks, coffee strainers and teething rings fell upon the Currier & Ives prints. They began to boost their value as records of an artless age, some even insisting upon their intrinsic value as works of art. Prices mounted until now a "good" Currier & Ives print is worth about as much as a Chevrolet and rare ones can be sold to lift mortgages from old farmhouses...
Eielson to the Rescue. Icebound off Cape North, Siberia and 500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska, were two ships containing 14 men and a maid, also $1,000,000 worth of white fox, squirrel and other Siberian furs. At Fairbanks was Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic and Antarctic flyer, now general manager of Alaskan Airways. To the rescue flew he, took off the furs and the humans...