Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Dudley, Hollis, Massachusetts, Matthews, Mower, and Wiggles-worth Halls have been invited today...
More important still is a cold analysis of the consequences of war in the light of historical evidence. What is the effect of an armed conflict upon a nation's birth rate, its mortality rate, its political organization, its ethics and culture? Democracy may be worth saving no matter what the aftermath. But perhaps the very effects of a war may destroy all the conditions necessary to its existence...
...cash. Goebbels was given a total of $8,990,000, of which $4,635,000 was said to be cash. Ribbentrop's figure was $9,740,000. The report named securities held for GÖring by "a German shipping firm in New York": $750,000 worth of bonds, mostly Pennsylvania R. R., Illinois Central, Cities Service, Bethlehem Steel. It gave him three ranches in South America; $1,225,000 in a bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia's branch at Trieste...
About half of London's publishers moved to countryside offices. All laid in big paper stocks in anticipation of such a paper famine as occurred in World War I, when even wrapping paper became almost worth its weight in gold. If paper prices rise, Penguin and other cheap books will suffer first...
American Art Today, the collection of contemporary paintings on exhibit at the New York World's Fair, is not, from the point of view of art alone, worth seeing. However, certain phases of the exhibit are interesting insofar as they are able to show clearly the direction of a trend the importance of which is continually increasing in every field of modern culture. Seeds of social and economic maladjustment are beginning to take root on the canvases of many excellent artists...