Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mabel McFiggins bought $4 worth of orange stamps (in 25? denominations), good for $4 worth of any food she cared to buy at any of Rochester's 1,200 groceries. For every dollar which she spent for orange stamps, she also got 50? in blue stamps. These were premiums, given to her by the U. S. Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers...
...After the Lindsay incident Columnist Westbrook Pegler tartly reminded the press: "It will be worth remembering . . . that they are not coming to visit the American newspapers...
Notes between the notes: "Doojie-Woogie," Johnny Hodges' latest effort for Vocation, is well worth getting. It has the usual weird alto sax of the leader and some very fine rhythm riffs . . . Mildred Bailey sings a song from the Mikado, "Tit Willow," and despite shrill shricks of horror from the Savoyards, it still is an excellent job . . . Blue Note, a private recording concern of New York City, has just released its third and fourth records, a ten and twelve inch platter of the blues, with such stars as Frankie Newton and Albert Ammons taking part. While the recording wasn...
...such dispute as this, there is bound to be a conservative group within the University who believe in compromise. They may ask, why not give in a little to Cambridge? Pay the city a "contribution." Perhaps not $100,000 a year, but something. Improved relationships will be worth the price, they may argue. This attitude is as invidious as that of Mayor Lyons, and it seems likely that the Corporation has considered such a possibility and rejected it. Taxation or contributions are no matters for compromise. Either Harvard does or it does not contribute. The President says, "No." Giving...
...there is any speck that could mar the efficient working out of these improvements, it is in that slight word "flexibility" which is not seldom used to cover a multitude of sins and open a fortress of loop-holes. The worth of the adoption of the suggestion is to be tested by the amount of leeway allowed. True it is that there are many situations where set rules cannot be applied,--where inefficiency or injustice would be the result. But care must be taken that what start out as exceptions to general principles now subscribed to do not become...