Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more Italian peasants seemed to be out of luck. Last year the Government mixed wheat flour with so much corn there was not enough left for polenta (corn meal mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...only an intermediate cog in the machine that transforms Joe Patterson's personality into the medium of a newspaper. It was Patterson who ordered the story of his divorce played on Page Two, who decided his marriage to Mary King, editor of his woman's page, was worth only a Page Four position. Publisher Patterson's formula for success is to give the people what they want, but the reason it works so well on the News is that he knows the people's taste infinitely better than any other newspaper publisher. Since...
...drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...
...special celebration is a meeting. It is not a mass meeting of laymen nor a big crowded convention like last week's meeting in Milwaukee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at which almost any academic Tom, Dick or Harry could put in his 2? worth...
...Mermoz, surveyor of the Casablanca-Dakar line across the Sahara, the South American line between Buenos Aires and Santiago; veteran of a dozen smashups; who, before he was lost in the South Atlantic, confessed to Saint Exupéry: "It's worth it, it's worth the final smashup...