Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON questionnaire taken last year and involving over 1000 undergraduates, it was ascertained that more than 85 per cent of Harvard upperclassmen indulge in some sort of extra-thirds of the group declared that their activity or activities were fun and worth the time they demanded...
...Student Union is another very live organization. Seldom dormant, this political left wing is constantly agitating, and has a lot of fun scrapping with the newly-formed Young Conservatives, or Young Independents, as they later came to be called. The Student Union sponsors many worth-while talks and debates on various subjects...
...days, this competition was regarded as a worthwhile grind that men had to fight in, but in which they considered the punishment worth what they got out of it. Due to the increased amount of time that a student has to put on his work, however, the work has been cut down a great deal, and instead of causing men's mark's to fall, has in many cases aided with their work as it provided a regulating influence without which they would have been lost in the first few months of college...
...Little & Ives, who alone were in for a reported $103,000. Main asset of interest to creditors was Novelist John Steinbeck, ex-laborer and reporter whose tender tale of proletarian brutality, Of Mice and Men, had netted Covici-Friede about $35,000. How much Steinbeck was considered to be worth by publishers was disclosed last week when his contract was sold for $15,000 to Viking Press, which in addition gave Publisher Pascal Covici a job. (Partner Donald Friede withdrew three years...
...copies have turned up, are now the rarest U. S. books: The Wonder fid Wizard of Oz (1900), Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick (1868), Little Prudy (1864), The Wide, Wide World (1851), Elsie Dinsmore (1867). A complete collection of first editions listed by Editor Blanck would be worth approximately...